Name Ernst Theis Role Music performer | Albums Der Carneval in Rom | |
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Similar People Axel Kohler, Johann Strauss II, Martin Burlas, Eduard Kunneke, Ernst Toch | ||
Ernst Theis (born July 31, 1961) is an Austrian conductor. From 2003 to 2013 he was chief conductor of the Staatsoper Dresden.
Theis was born in Sierning, the son of Georg and Gertrude Theis. He took trumpet and drum-like instrument lessons at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts under conducting guidance from Otmar Zuytner and Peter Keyshing. On January 5, 1989 he made his first public appearance with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and then conducted with such Austrian orchestras as the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony. He also was a conductor of German orchestras such as North German Radio Symphony Orchestra and Hamburger Symphoniker as well as various international ones such as Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, and Slovak Philharmonic. On March 16, 2013, he performed Ludwig van Beethoven's Seventh and Eight symphonies with Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan in Kazan, Russia and the same month received an invitation from the Weill Festival in Dessau.