Gabriel Feltz is one of the most important German conductors of the middle generation. Since the beginning of the 2013/14 season he has been General Music Director of the City of Dortmund, leading the Dortmund Philharmonic and the Dortmund Opera. He is also the chief conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic (Beogradska Filharmonija). In the 2018/2019 season, Feltz is Artist in Residence at the Musikverein Graz. The Musikverein, founded in 1815, is one of the most traditional concert organizers in Austria, and Feltz has been there regularly since 2007. His residency includes a guest performance with the Belgrade Philharmonic (September 24 and 25, 2018) and two concerts with the Graz Philharmonic with a Schmidt/Schreker/Strauss program (April 29 and 30, 2019). In Gabriel Feltz' first GMD position with the Altenburg-Gera Philharmonic Orchestra (2001-2005), he was the youngest acting GMD in Germany. He headed the Stuttgart Philharmonic for almost ten years and conducted a total of over 350 performances there. This period is considered one of the most successful in the history of this ensemble. In 2007 the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and Gabriel Feltz received the Prix Rachmaninoff from the Sergej Rachmaninoff Foundation – in recognition of the most extensive performance cycle of Rachmaninoff's works in the German-speaking world to date. From 2008 to the summer of 2013, Feltz was at the same time first guest conductor at the Theater Basel, which was twice awarded “Opera House of the Year” during this period (2008/09 and 2009/10). The productions managed by Gabriel Feltz played a significant part in this. The list of orchestras conducted by Gabriel Feltz at home and abroad is long - there are currently over 60 orchestras worldwide. Examples include: the Saxon Staatskapelle Dresden, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Berlin Concert Hall Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB), the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Taiwan, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Opera House and Museum Orchestra, the radio orchestras of the NDR (Hamburg and Hanover), the WDR and the MDR, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Graz Philharmonic, the KBS Symphony Orchestra Seoul, the Symphony Orchestra of the Danish Radio, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (RTE), In 2013/14 Feltz made his acclaimed debut at the Komische Oper Berlin with the premiere of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's DIE SOLDATEN and was immediately engaged there again for Richard Wagner's DIE MASTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG. He supervised the revival of Wagner's FLYING DUTCHMAN at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and ARABELLA at the Frankfurt Opera. Another highlight is the performance of Gustav Mahler's 8th symphony for the 200th anniversary of the Grazer Musikverein (2015), a concert by over 550 participants for over 4000 listeners. He made his debut at the Zurich Opera with a new production of Wolfgang Rihm's HAMLETMASCHINE. A regular collaboration connects the artist with the Cologne Opera, where he conducted, among other things, a new production of Dallapiccola's IL PRIGIONIERO and Zimmermann's EKKLSIASTISCHE AKTION, ARABELLA and a double evening with Bartok's HERZOG BLAUBARTS BURG and Poulenc's LA VOIX HUMAINE. The artist's discography is one of the most extensive that a conductor of his generation can boast of. It ranges from Mozart and Beethoven to Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Elgar, Prokofiev, Scriabin and Richard Strauss to Nono and Ligeti. His recording of Luigi Nono's INTOLLERANZA 1960 was awarded the Diapason d'Or. In 2013 the world premiere recording of the complete ballet music by Ottorino Respighis BELKIS - REGINA DI SABA was released on Blu-Ray and DVD with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, the mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis and the actress Julia Jentsch as narrator. The live recording conducted by Feltz was the first complete rendition of this work, which he particularly admired, since its premiere at the Scala di Milano in 1932. AIDA AM RHEIN from Basel, which he conducted in October 2010 and was broadcast live across Europe by Swiss television, 3sat, RAI and the ZDF theater channel and is also available on DVD, also caused a great stir. GMD GABRIEL FELTZ has just completed the highly acclaimed recording of the Rachmaninoff cycle with the Dortmund Philharmonic. Now, as chief conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic, he has a CD here for the first time recorded: Reinhold Glière's 3rd symphony, which is rarely performed and often unjustly underestimated. In 2017 the artist made his debut at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as part of a guest performance by the Komische Oper Berlin with Mozart's MAGIC FLUTE. He has made guest appearances with the National Orchestra of Taiwan and the Hangzhou Philarmonic Orchestra, completed his CD recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's symphonies with the Dortmund Philharmonic and conducted the largest classical concert in Serbia's history on the banks of the Danube with the Belgrade Philharmonic. With great approval from the orchestra, his contract as artistic director and general music director of the Dortmund Philharmonic was extended ahead of time. Feltz received his artistic training from 1989 and 1994 at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. He then embarked on a classic German conductor's career, initially becoming Gerd Albrecht's assistant at the Hamburg State Opera and then having permanent engagements as conductor at the Lübeck Municipal Theater and the Bremen Theater.