Gottfried Rabl
Gottfried Rabl graduated in French horn, conducting and vocal coaching from the Vienna University of Music. After a one-year conducting fellowship at the Sibelius Academy he began to perform with his own highly successful avant-garde music ensemble Theatre of Silence, serving as conductor, pianist and composer. For three years he was musical assistant to Leonard Bernstein, during which time he edited the composer’s last opera, A Quiet Place. He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at Indiana University.
Recognised for his strength and intensity in conducting 19th- and 20th-century repertoire as well as contemporary music, Rabl frequently leads the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and is artistic director of the established Ensemble Kontrapunkte. Internationally, he has worked with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, among many others.
He has recorded for Naxos, BMG Ariola, Orfeo, cpo, Capriccio, Kairos, Toccata and Sony Classical.
His numerous recordings with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra have garnered widespread acclaim, and variously received the Echo Klassik Award for Best Classical Composition and a GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
