August 2024

JUN MÄRKL - Conductor
Music Director - Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Music Director - Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra
Chief Conductor - Residentie Orchestra The Hague from 2025
Principal Guest Conductor - Oregon Symphony
Jun Märkl is a highly respected interpreter of core Germanic repertoire and has become renown
for his refined and idiomatic explorations of the French Impressionists. He currently serves asMusic Director of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra and is the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Residentie Orchestra ofThe Hague, Netherlands, having completed a four year term as Principal Guest Conductor ofthat same esteemed orchestra . He serves also as Principal Guest Conductor of the Oregon
Symphony.
Mr. Märkl’s expertise in the world of opera and long historical relationships with the state operasof Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Metropolitan Opera of New York,San Francisco Opera and New National Theatre in Tokyo have been complemented over the past
many decades by his orchestral music directorships of the Orchestre National de Lyon, the MDR
Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Basque National Orchestra of San Sebastian andMalaysia Philharmonic.
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Märkl regularly guest conducts the leading orchestras of North America, Asia, Australia, New
Zealand and Europe with special connectionsin the United States to the St. Louis Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, theBaltimore Symphony, Minnesota Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony,in Europe with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, TonkünstlerOrchestra Vienna and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, in Australia and New
Zealand with the Sydney Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, and the New ZealandSymphony, and in Asia with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo,Tokyo Metropolitan, Osaka, Kyoto Symphony, and the Singapore Symphony.
Mr. Märkl has conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras including thePhiladelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the BostonSymphony, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, and manyothers.
In recognition of his achievements in France, he was honoured in 2012 with the Chevalier del’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Mr. Märkl has an extensive discography – among the more than55
albums he has recorded are the complete Schumann symphonies with the NHK SymphonyOrchestra, Mendelssohn and Wagner with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, andworks by Ravel, Messiaen, and a highly acclaimed Debussy series with the Orchestre Nationalde Lyon. He is currently working on a cycle of works by Saint-Saëns, R. Strauss and Hosokawa.
Born in Munich, Märkl won the conducting competition of the Deutscher Musikrat in 1986 andstudied at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Soon after he appeared inopera houses throughout Europe followed by his first music directorships at the Staatstheater
Saarbrücken and the Nationaltheater Mannheim.
Mr. Märkl is highly dedicated to work with young musicians: for many years he worked as

Principal Conductor at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo and the Aspen Music Festival inColorado. He teaches as a Guest Professor at the Kunitachi College of Music Tokyo and herecently founded the National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.