Enthusiasm in abundance.

Tobias Wögerer conductor

Professional, sensitive and inspiring are just a few of the qualities which describe the versatile young conductor Tobias Wögerer.

The Volksoper Wien appointed Tobias Wögerer as “Kapellmeister” for the 2022/23 season. Since then he conducted more than 100 performances in the genre of Opera, Operette, Ballett & Musical. During this season he will conduct performances of „Carmen“, „Die Fledermaus“, „Hänsel & Gretel“, „Csardasfürstin“, „La Rondine“ und „Die Zauberflöte“. Furthermore he will make his debut with the Tiroler Symphonieorchester and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.

In April 2023, Tobias Wögerer was nominated for the final of the prestigious “Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award” and made his debut at the Salzburg Festival last summer.

After a first successful collaboration with Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla in July 2021, Tobias Wögerer assisted her at the Bavarian State Opera in a production of “The cunning little Vixen” by Leoš Janáček. He has also assisted the conductor Teodor Currentzis twice at the Salzburg Festival.

A highlight from the previous saison marks his debut with the Wiener Symphoniker as part of the "Wohnzimmer-Konzerte" at the Wiener Konzerthaus

In December 2019 Tobias Wögerer won the prestigious conducting competition of the MDR Symphonie-Orchester in Leipzig, and made his concert debut with the orchestra in 2021.

Tobias Wögerer celebrated his appointment as assistant conductor of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester with two successful concerts in Lisbon in 2019.  These were followed in 2020 by a summer tour through Italy, including a performance of Schönberg's monodrama "Erwartung" with soprano Angela Denoke as soloist.  

As assistant conductor he has had the privilege of working closely with renowned maestri such as Herbert Blomstedt, Teodor Currentzis, Daniele Gatti, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Manfred Honeck und Jonathan Nott.

Numerous invitations have brought the young Austrian to the podiums of many renowned orchestras. He has conducted the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, the Jena Philharmonie, the Brandenburger Symphoniker, the Göttinger Symphony Orchester, and the Berner Symphonieorchester.

At the age of 25 Tobias Wögerer conducted his first opera production at the International Bruckner Festival Linz: Victor Ullmann's "Der Kaiser von Atlantis".   

Tobias Wögerer, born in Linz in 1991, has studied at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar with Nicolás Pasquet and Ekhart Wycik and at the Zurich University of the Arts with Johannes Schlaefli.

Master classes with Paavo Järvi, Peter Gülke, Arthur Fagen, Ole Kristian Ruud and Mark Heron complete his education. The versatile conductor also received important impulses as an assistant of Johannes Prinz at the Vienna Singverein, where he has been an active member since 2015.