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Orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl
Dirigent: Asher Fisch

Achtung, dieser Schönberg könnte gefallen! Seine „Verklärte Nacht“ komponiert er lange vor seiner Phase als Zwölftöner. Auch in der erweiterten Streichorchester-Fassung von 1917 funkelt spätromantisches Leuchten durch. Schönberg auf Harmoniekurs – wohl auch deshalb, weil er sich gerade in die jüngere Schwester seines Freundes Alexander Zemlinsky verliebt hat. Chefdirigent Asher Fisch vertieft das Repertoire für Streichorchester und umringt den Avantgarde-Visionär Schönberg mit Haydn und Schubert.

Mit den Einnahmen dieses Konzerts stärken die Tiroler Festspiele die Arbeit der CONCORDIA Sozialprojekte, die Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene in Rumänien, Bulgarien, Moldau, dem Kosovo und Österreich auf ihrem Weg in ein eigenverantwortliches Leben begleiten und unterstützen.

JOSEPH HAYDN
Symphonie Nr. 44 e-moll, Hob. I:44
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG
„Verklärte Nacht“, op. 4 (Fassung für Streichorchester 1917)
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Symphonie Nr. 4, in c-moll D 417 „Tragische“

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Team

Orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

The music springs from the enthusiasm of a motivated and exceptionally well-prepared ensemble that has grown together over the years. The Tyrolean Festival Erl Orchestra was first formed in the summer of 1999—and today, musicians from 20 nations play together. Already in its first year, the ensemble achieved unprecedented success, which would go on to bring international recognition to the Tyrolean Festival Erl. Top young talents, musicians from major international orchestras, chamber music specialists, and lecturers come together annually in summer and winter—and since 2017, also in fall and spring—as part of the Tyrolean Festival Erl. Under the direction of festival founder Gustav Kuhn, the orchestra garnered rave reviews from international critics and cemented its reputation as one of the world’s finest Wagner orchestras. With the start of Jonas Kaufmann’s tenure as artistic director in September 2024, Asher Fisch—a conductor in high demand internationally in both opera and concert settings—has taken over the helm of the orchestra.

In addition to Richard Wagner’s ten major music dramas and operas by Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, and Rossini, the orchestra’s repertoire includes Beethoven’s symphonies and many other key works from the concert repertoire spanning the Baroque and Romantic periods, as well as contemporary works and world premieres.

Asher Fisch Dirigent

Asher Fisch is Chief Conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and has been Music Director of the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl since the beginning of the 2024/25 season. He is internationally recognized as one of the leading conductors and has an extensive repertoire that covers both opera and concert areas. He began his career as an assistant to Daniel Barenboim and as a conductor at the Berlin State Opera. Since then, he has conducted at major European opera houses, including Vienna, Milan, Munich, Paris and Madrid. As an acknowledged Wagner specialist, Fisch has recorded two complete "Ring" cycles as well as "Tristan und Isolde". In addition, he has intensively studied the Italian repertoire and recently released a Puccini album together with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, the new Artistic Director of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl.

As a concert conductor, Asher Fisch has led renowned US American and European orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France and the London Symphony Orchestra. Asher Fisch is also active as a pianist and can be experienced in piano concerts, with chamber music and as a song accompanist.