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© Julia Wesely

Azis Sadikovic was born in Vienna in 1983 and studied conducting with Prof. Georg Mark and violin with Prof. Werner Hink (concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) at the Vienna Conservatory Private University, where he graduated with honours in 2008. He has taken part in masterclasses with Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, Peter Eötvös, Yakov Kreizberg, Kurt Masur, Colin Metters, Günter Neuhold and Nicolàs Pasquet and has worked with artists such as Elisabeth Leonskaja, Julia Fischer, Bobby McFerrin and Pavel Vernikov. In 2013 he won the Concurso Jovens Maestros 2013 in Lisbon/Portugal and was awarded 3rd prize and the Bronze Baton at the prestigious Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition 2012 in Katowice/Poland. He was 2nd prize winner at the Solti International Conducting Competition 2017 in Hungary.

Azis Sadikovic has conducted orchestras including the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Danish National Radio Orchestra, the Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jyväskylä Sinfonia Finlandia, the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda and the Symphony Orchestra of the National Theatre in Prague. He has performed an extensive symphonic repertoire with orchestras such as the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken, the Croatian Chamber Orchestra, the Filharmonia Slaska, the Filharmonia im. Karola Szymanowskiego w Krakowie, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and the Slovenská filharmónija. In 2020/21, he opened the season with the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria.

Azis Sadikovic has worked on an extensive opera repertoire, ranging from Gluck's “Orfeo et Eurydice” to Mozart's “Don Giovanni” and Beethoven's “Fidelio” to Wagner's “Tannhäuser”, at the National Theatre in Prague, the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, among others. He has worked with directors such as Keith Warner and Katharina Wagner. He also worked on Hans Werner Henze's “Die Bassariden” at the Teatro dell' Opera di Roma in 2015. In Vienna, he conducted the new production of Strauss' “Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Palais Schönburg in 2013 and the premiere of Polgar's “Das Budapest Verhör” at the Nestroyhof Theatre in 2011. In 2018, he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the children's opera with a special edition of the “Ring des Nibelungen”. As part of this project, he accepted another invitation to Bayreuth from 2019 to 2024. Azis Sadikovic has worked with numerous members of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. Soloists who have performed with him include Jonas Kaufmann, Christopher Ventris, Stephen Gould, Julian Rachlin, Andreas Schager, Elena Maximova, Bo Skovhus, René Pape, Hila Fahima, Kristin Lewis, Natalia Ushakova, Florian Boesch, Mojca Erdmann and Tomasz Konieczny.

Performing contemporary works plays an important role for him. Azis Sadikovic has performed at the Festival Voix Nouvelles in Royaumont/France and has given concerts with the Ensemble Linea/Strasbourg and the Namascae Lemanic Modern Ensemble/Switzerland. Azis Sadikovic is keen to find new ways of communicating music.

His symphonic repertoire ranges from Isaac Albeniz to Erich Zoubek and includes the classical romantic as well as the modern concert repertoire. He has also discovered rarely performed pieces such as those by the composers Albeniz and Zoubeck with great musical flair.

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