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The Iranian conductor Hossein Pishkar won the prestigious German Conducting Award in 2017,
an international competition for young conductors organised by the German Music Council in
partnership with Cologne\u2019s leading musical institutions. Additionally in 2017 the German Music
Council presented him with the Ernst-von-Schuch Sponsorship Award from the Ernst-von-Schuch
Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a guest conductor, he has worked with orchestras including the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn,
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Danish Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Noord
Nederlands Orkest, Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Orchestra Regionale della Toscana,
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orquesta Ciudad
de Granada, Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatsorchester
Stuttgart, and the WDR Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2025\/26 season, he will make his debut with the Haydn Philharmonie, the Jan\u00e1\u010dek
Philharmonic Ostrava, and the Lithuanian Opera Orchestra. He will also return to the Belgrade
Philharmonic, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, and Qatar
Philharmonic, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notable debuts in the past have included Bizet’s Carmen (stage direction: Barrie Kosky),
Shostakovich’s The Nose (stage direction: \u00c0lex Oll\u00e9), Verdi’s Aida and Mozart’s La Clemenza di
Tito at the Royal Danish Opera, Mozart’s Die Zauberfl\u00f6te (stage direction: Barrie Kosky) at the
Staatsoper Stuttgart and Verdi’s Rigoletto (stage direction: Cristina Mazzavillani Muti) at the
Ravenna Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before moving to D\u00fcsseldorf to attend the conducting class of R\u00fcdiger Bohn at the Robert
Schumann Hochschule, Hossein Pishkar studied composition and piano in Teheran, where he
was born. Hossein Pishkar has received further tuition in masterclasses with Riccardo Muti (2017,
Aida in Ravenna at the Italian Opera Academy) and with Sir Bernard Haitink (2016, Lucerne
Festival Orchestra).<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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