Jun Märkl

Jun Märkl ( born February 11, 1959 in Munich) is a German conductor.

Life

The son of a German violinist and a Japanese pianist was taught at the age of four years of his parents in piano and violin. In 1978 he started at the University of Music and Theatre in Hanover piano and violin and conducting study. After graduating, he went to Munich to Sergiu Celibidache and later at the University of Michigan, where one of his mentors Gustav Meier was. In 1986 he was winner of the Conducting Competition of the German Music Council. In 1987 he received a scholarship from the Boston Symphony Orchestra to study conducting at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.

From 1991 to 1994 Märkl was General Music Director of the Saarland State Theater in Saarbruecken. From 1993 to 2000 he was music director and opera director at the National Theatre Mannheim. In the U.S., he made his debut in February 1999 at the Metropolitan Opera with Il trovatore and returned there again in December 2000 with Turandot back.

2005 Märkl began his tenure as music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon. This ended in 2011. In September 2007 he was Principal Conductor of the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig. The contract expired at the end of the season 2011/2012. In 2012, he was appointed Chevalier des Lettres et des Arts.

He worked among others with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal together. Since 1997 he is a regular guest conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.