2024-07-03 13:22:50
Florian Wiegand is currently also the concert director of the Salzburg Festival. In autumn 2025 he will move to Munich, for good reason.
Florian Wiegand, concert director of the Salzburg Festival, became artistic director of the Munich Philharmonic. With Wiegand, the orchestra has received an artistic director who can perfectly cover the scene between the audience at home and the international media and the tourist trade, said the Mayor of Munich Dieter Reiter (SPD) after the city council confirmed the employee. The 50-year-old will take up his new position in September 2025, followed a year later by chief executive officer Lahav Shani.
Wiegand is looking forward to his new position with the city assembly: “It has a lot to do with the Munich Philharmonic under Sergiu Celibidache that I came to the orchestra as a young man. Now I have the opportunity to help shape the future of this wonderful orchestra filled me with inspiration and humility,” he said of his future work. He wants to be in Munich again and again in the fall.
Wiegand was born in Munich and studied art administration. He has been concertmaster in Salzburg since 2012 and teaches at the University of Zurich. He won a multi-stage selection process for the director in Munich.
(dpa)
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