OscarJockel

Oscar Jockel currently serves as Assistant Conductor with the Berliner Philharmoniker. He secured a two-year position as a conducting fellow at the Karajan Academy, being awarded the ‘Siemens Conductors Scholarship’ after winning the conducting competition at the Philharmonie Berlin in 2021. In addition to assisting Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko in both concert and opera performances, Oscar conducts independent concert projects in collaboration with the academy members of the Berliner Philharmoniker. 2021 also saw Oscar appointed Assistant Conductor at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Ensemble intercontemporain and Music Director Matthias Pintscher.

In the 2023/24 season he gave performances with the PKF - Prague Philharmonia, the Tonkünstler-Orchester Wien, the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, and the Wiener Concert-Verein. He also conducted the world premieres of his own compositions with the Karajan-Akademie and the Sinfonietta Leipzig. The season before he made guest appearances at the Salzburg Easter Festival in a production at the Felsenreitschule as well as at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden at the Internationale Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch, the opening concert of the 2022 Internationales Brucknerfest Linz, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and the Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris.

For his work as a composer and conductor, Oscar received the Herbert von Karajan Prize, which was presented to him at the 2023 Salzburg Easter Festival. His recent and current commissions include works for the Philharmonie Berlin, the Wiener Musikverein, the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, the Camerata Salzburg, the Quatuor Diotima (Brucknerhaus Linz), a music theatre work and a collaboration with Westbam (Salzburg Easter Festival and the Mendelssohn-Orchesterakademie of the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig). In 2020/21, he was appointed the first Composer in Residence at the Brucknerhaus Linz.

As a conductor or conducting assistant under Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Reinhard Goebel or Hartmut Haenchen, Oscar has worked with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Philharmonia Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra.