Oscar Jockel wins assistant position with the Berliner Philharmoniker

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Awards & Successes

Oscar Jockel, a master's student in orchestral conducting, has won first prize in the competition for the assistant position with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Jockel will serve as assistant conductor to the Berliner Philharmoniker and principal conductor Kyrill Petrenko for one year beginning in the fall of 2022. In addition, he will be an academist at the Karajan Academy for two years and present himself with his own portrait concert.

Oscar Jockel, who this September also won a selection competition for the position of assistant conductor with the renowned Ensemble intercontemporain at the Paris Philharmonie, will take up the latter post in February 2022. Jockel will soon make his conducting debut with two other important orchestras: the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in November 2021 and the Bruckner Orchester Linz in December 2021.

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