About

With enthusiasm for new music and clear instinct for the stage, hands-on experience in small & big opera productions as well as in the new music scene, Leonhard Garms’ focus as conductor is on contemporary music & music theatre. He loves to create concert programs that combine new music with repertoire and cares for the visual and scenic aspect of musical performance.

Working closely with composers, in rehearsals he strives for making interpretation a joint adventure with everyone involved.

Since 2014 Leonhard Garms is resident conductor of Schallfeld Ensemble and freelances internationally. He has been invited among others to Opéra Comique Paris, Klangforum Wien, Orchestra dell’Opera Carlo Felice Genoa, Orchestre National de Bretagne, Berliner Festspiele, Brisbane Festival Australia. 

Born and grown up in Rome in an Austrian family, he studied at Kunstuniversität Graz. Engagements as correpetiteur and assistant conductor led him to international opera houses and festivals (among others Komische Oper Berlin, Istanbul State Opera, Korean National Opera, Ruhrtriennale, Wiener Festwochen) working with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Peter Rundel and Emilio Pomarico.  Leonhard is ordinary professor at Conservatorio Alessandro Scarlatti Palermo and lives in Sicily.

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