Hannah Eisendle is a conductor, composer, and pianist. As a conductor, she is particularly interested in performing works from the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2023, she made her debut with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO) in the Großer Saal of the Vienna Musikverein, where she had previously conducted the Austrian premiere of Britten’s Ballad of Heroes. She has received invitations as guest conductor from the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Concert-Verein, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Johann Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna, the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra, as cover conductor for Cristian Măcelaru with the Orchestre National de France and as musical assistant with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock.

In accordance with her preference for collaborating with artists from different genres, an important focus of her activities lies in the opera metier. For the Johann Strauss 2025 Vienna Festival, she was appointed musical director of Wiener Blut, directed by Nikolaus Habjan. From 2023 till 2025 she was Kapellmeister and répétiteur at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, where she made her debut with Strauss‘ Die Fledermaus and where she conducted Puccini’s Tosca, Kühr’s Stallerhof, Herman’s La Cage aux Folles, ballet evenings with works by Gershwin and Bernstein and – as musical director – Menken’s Sister Act. In Autumn 2025 she works as musical assistant for Usuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland at the Musiktheater an der Wien. She also conducted Tosca at the Volkstheater Rostock, worked for several years as a conductor and musical assistant for the youth opera at the Theater an der Wien, was musical director of the children’s opera there and assisted with productions at the Neue Oper Wien. Furthermore, she conducted Offenbach’s Orpheus in der Unterwelt and Hoffmanns Erzählungen for the oper rundum and was musical assistant for Janáček’s Jenufa at the Théâtre National du Capitole de Toulouse. In addition to conducting Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Schönbrunner Schlosstheater, she has conducted contemporary operas by Patricia Martinez, Caitlin Smith and Manuel Zwerger.

In her compositions, she is often inspired by extramusical impressions, images, and other art forms, which she transforms into sounds. One example of this is – grey –, a trio with which she won the open call of the Austrian Cultural Forum London. She came to international attention as a composer with her orchestra work heliosis, which was commissioned by the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO). The world premiere of this work in March 2022, conducted by Marin Alsop, was followed by numerous international performances in Spain, France, Germany, Finland, Poland, America and at the BBC Proms in London. In addition to further commissions from the RSO, she has also received commissions from the Wiener Concert-Verein, the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Carinthian Summer Festival, among others. In 2022, the Vienna State Opera invited her to compose the youth opera Elektrische Fische, which premiered in 2025.

Her orchestral works are performed under the musical direction of Marin Alsop, Giedrė Šlekytė, Joana Carneiro, Pekka Kuusisto, Manfred Honeck and Cristian Măcelaru by orchestras such as the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, as well as under her own baton by the Tonkünstler-Orchestra, the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra and the Wiener Concert-Verein.

Hannah Eisendle studied piano at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre and graduated in composition and conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She received important impulses for her work in masterclasses with Marin Alsop, Cristian Măcelaru and Johannes Schlaefli, as a Conducting Fellow at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz (CA) and as a participant in the Darmstadt Summer Courses.

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