Bernhard
Steiner

Vienna-born conductor Bernhard Steiner began his career as Kapellmeister of the Vienna Boys’ Choir after completing his studies at the Vienna University of Music.

Further important stages of his career included working as an assistant chorus master at the Bayreuth Festival, serving as chorus master and Kapellmeister at the theatres in Gießen and Koblenz, and holding the positions of First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at Theater Hagen.

He has conducted concerts and opera productions throughout Europe. In Germany, he has worked with ensembles including the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, repeatedly with the WDR Funkhausorchester, the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Bochumer Symphoniker and the Berliner Symphoniker, both at the Berliner Philharmonie and on several tours of China.

His musical collaborators have included Juan Diego Flórez, Angelika Kirchschlager, Andreas Schager, Eva Lind, Daniel Müller-Schott, Antje Weithaas and David Garrett. Until 2020, he was Chief Conductor of the Bayer Philharmoniker Leverkusen. Since 2021, he has directed the Schola Cantorum Leipzig.

Bernhard Steiner taught choral conducting at Folkwang University in Essen and was Visiting Professor of Music Theatre at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He has directed the KMGV for more than 20 years and is also Musical Director of the Divertissementchen.