Christian Pollack

Christian Pollack is an Austrian classical conductor.

Biography and career

Pollack was born in Vienna, Austria, where he studied violon, viola, piano and composition at the Conservatory and Musikhochshule. He trained as a conductor with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna, and, later, with Sergiu Celibidache in Munich. He worked as assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi at the Carinthian Summer festival, in 1984 also at the Bregenzer Festspiele. He has conducted with the Volksoper Wien, since 1984, and was guest conductor of the Rundfunkorchester des SWR in 1986.^[1]

Pollack has been the chief conductor of the East Slovakian Philharmonic Kosice since 1992, and the musical director of the Wiener Residenzorchester since 2005, as well as musical director of the opera class at the Vienna Conservatory Privat-University. Since September 2002 he has also been the principal guest conductor of the Žilina Chamber Orchestra in Slovakia. Pollack teaches at the Vienna Conservatory, and is working on a complete edition of the works of Johann Strauss.

Pollack has made many recordings for the Marco Polo and Naxos labels, notably of classical Viennese music, such as the Johann Strauss and Josef Strauss, Ziehrer, Suppé, and Komzák. His recordings include a number of discs in Naxos' complete Johann Strauss and Josef Strauss editions.

References

1. ^ http://www.wro.at/vienna-classics/vienna-residence-orchestra/pollak.htm

External links

• Pollack's biography on the Naxos web site
• Pollack's biography on the Wiener Residenzorchester web site
• Biography on the Slovak Sinfionetta Žilina web site