Oscar Jockel
Born in Regensburg in 1995, Oscar Jockel currently lives in Paris, Berlin and in Bretstein, a remote Austrian mountain village. He received his first musical training with the Regensburger Domspatzen and studied composition and conducting at Mozarteum University in Salzburg as well as music theory and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He also deepened his conducting studies with Alain Altinoglu and his composition studies with Frédéric Durieux as a master’s student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. He has received numerous awards, including the Kai-Uwe von Hassel-Förderpreis and the Herbert-von-Karajan-Prize for his work as a composer and conductor to date. Since the 2022/23 season, Oscar Jockel has been conducting assistant to Kirill Petrenko with the Berlin Philharmonic and a conducting fellow of the Karajan Academy for two years, having emerged as a winner in the conducting competition for the “Siemens Conductors Scholarship” at the Berliner Philharmonie in 2021. Also in 2021, Oscar Jockel won a position as assistant conductor at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Ensemble intercontemporain and its director Matthias Pintscher. He has followed various invitations, including those from the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester.