Music Director Designate
The three-year search for the San Antonio Symphony’s eighth music director in 71 years is over! On October 2, 2010 Sebastian Lang-Lessing will make his debut as your new music director. Lang-Lessing performs with almost unlimited energy and passion. From Berlin to Paris, from Australia to Houston, from San Francisco to San Antonio, audiences have been swept away. So, let yourself go and be transported by the power of the music.
Sebastian was born in Germany and in high school was an exchange student in Indiana. He and his wife Britta Funck will have a home in San Antonio. In addition to his native German, he is fluent in English, French and Italian and also speaks Spanish.
After being awarded the Ferenc Fricsay Prize 1990 in Berlin, he began his professional career with the Hamburg State Opera. Sebastian Lang-Lessing has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in Australia since 2004. He was Music Director of the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy in France between 1999 and 2006. Lang-Lessing has led major orchestras all over the world, including:
• Orchestre de Paris,
• Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra,
• Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and
• radio orchestras of Berlin & Frankfurt.
Lang-Lessing’s successful international opera career began when he became resident conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. His opera highlights include:
• San Francisco Opera,
• Houston Grand Opera,
• Los Angeles Opera,
• Washington National Opera,
• Opera Colorado in Denver, and
• Opéra Bastille in Paris.
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