BIOGRAPHY
Tobias Wögerer is a finalist of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival.
He was Assistant Conductor of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and, as of the 2026/27 season, is First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at the Staatsoper Hannover.
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STAATSOPER HANNOVER
Professional, sensitive and inspiring – these qualities define Tobias Wögerer’s work as a conductor. With a wide-ranging repertoire that spans concerts, opera, operetta and ballet through to musicals, he combines musical precision with a keen sense for the musical language of each work.
From the 2026/27 season, Tobias Wögerer is First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at the Staatsoper Hannover. Over the course of the season he conducts the new productions of Beethoven’s Fidelio and the ballet Romeo & Julia, as well as the revivals of La Bohème, Hänsel & Gretel and Rigoletto.
VOLKSOPER WIEN · AWARDS
From the 2022/23 season until June 2026, Tobias Wögerer was Kapellmeister at the Volksoper Wien. There, within a very short time, he built up a large and varied repertoire and conducted more than 170 performances of 24 different productions – from opera and operetta to ballet and musicals.
In April 2023 he reached the final of the renowned Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival, and in the summer of the same year made his Festival debut with the Camerata Salzburg. In 2024 he received the Austrian Music Theatre Award in the category “Musical Direction – Young Talent”.
CONCERTS
Tobias Wögerer has also appeared on the concert podium with numerous renowned orchestras in recent years. He has conducted the Vienna Symphony, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the Bern Symphony Orchestra, among others. Concert tours have taken him across Europe as well as to Japan and China. He gained further important artistic experience as assistant to Teodor Currentzis at the Salzburg Festival, with whom he worked in 2022 and again in 2024. His collaboration with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla also took him to the Bavarian State Opera, where he assisted on a production of Das schlaue Füchslein.
GUSTAV MAHLER YOUTH ORCHESTRA
His time with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra was particularly formative. From 2019 to 2022, Tobias Wögerer was the orchestra’s Assistant Conductor, working closely with eminent conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Daniele Gatti, Manfred Honeck, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Jonathan Nott. In February 2019 he made his debut on the orchestra’s podium with two concerts in Lisbon. In 2020 he led a summer tour of Italy with the soprano Angela Denoke.
EARLY YEARS & EDUCATION
Tobias Wögerer conducted his first opera production at the age of 25 as part of the International Brucknerfest Linz: Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis. In 2013 he founded the orchestra “Symphonic Ensemble Aktuell”, with which he regularly realised large-scale concert projects. From 2017 to 2019 he was Musical Director of the Vienna Philharmonic’s opera camps at the Salzburg Festival, and in 2019 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Jeunesse orchestra camp held throughout Austria.
Tobias Wögerer studied orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Nicolás Pasquet and Ekhart Wycik, and at the Zurich University of the Arts with Johannes Schlaefli. He received further artistic impulses in masterclasses with Paavo Järvi, Peter Gülke, Arthur Fagen and Ole Kristian Ruud. Another important part of his musical training is his long-standing association with the Wiener Singverein, of which he has been an active member since 2015.
