Hans Graf
Hans Graf (born 15 February 1949 in Marchtrenk, Austria) is an Austrian conductor.

As a child, Graf learned the violin and the piano. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Graz, Austria, and graduated with diplomas in piano and conducting. He also participated in conducting master classes with Franco Ferrara, Sergiu Celibidache and Arvīds Jansons. He received a state scholarship at the Leningrad Conservatory with Arvid Jansons. For the season 1975/1976 Graf was music director of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra in Baghdad. After winning the Karl Böhm conductor's competition in 1979, he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1981 with Stravinsky's "Petrouchka". He then worked at major opera houses including Munich, Paris, Florence, Venice and Rome. Since 1995, he has conducted most major American orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra.

Graf was music director of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg from 1984 to 1994, where he recorded the complete symphonies and other works by Mozart. From 1994 to 1996, he held the position of music director of the Basque National Orchestra, then from 1995 to 2003, of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and from 1998 to 2004 of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, France, where he was nominated member of the Legion of Honour in 2002.

Graf first conducted the Houston Symphony in 2000, and became its music director in 2001. He made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut with the Houston Symphony in January 2006. At the conclusion of his Houston tenure in 2013, Graf took the title of Conductor Laureate. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. On 2 December 2012 Graf was honoured by the Bruckner Society of America with the Kilenyi Medal of Honor for his performances of the Bruckner's Symphonies 3-4 and 6-9 including the sketches to Finale of the 9th, as well as the Mass No. 2 and the Te Deum.

From 2013 to 2015, Graf was professor for orchestral conducting at Mozarteum University Salzburg. In 2018, he won a Grammy award for the recording of Alban Berg's Wozzeck with Anne Schwanewilms, Roman Trekel and the Houston Symphony. This recording had received an ECHO Klassik award in 2017.

Lately, Graf performed at the summer festivals of Tanglewood, Aspen (both 2017) and Vail (2018).

Graf first appeared with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 2015, and returned for a further guest engagement in 2018. In July 2019, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra announced the appointment of Hans Graf as its new chief conductor, effective with the 2020-2021 season.

In private life, Graf is known as a wine connoisseur. He and his wife Margarita have a daughter, Anna.
Q325436
Marchtrenk
LOC
Q6989196
conductor
Concept
Q8355
violin
Concept
Q5994
piano
Concept
Q13298
Graz
LOC
Q1371884
Franco Ferrara
PER
Q165671
Sergiu Celibidache
PER
Q2617057
Arvīds Jansons
PER
Q178416
Leningrad Conservatory
LOC
Q4120039
Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra
ORG
Q84241
Karl Böhm
PER
Q209937
Vienna State Opera
LOC
Q740162
Petrouchka
EVE
Q864369
Boston Symphony
ORG
Q875248
Cleveland Orchestra
ORG
Q471154
New York Philharmonic
ORG
Q659181
Philadelphia Orchestra
ORG
Q1198887
music director
Concept
Q695974
Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
ORG
Q254
Mozart
PER
Q1981398
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
ORG
Q1979761
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
ORG
Q163700
Legion of Honour
PER
Q1631506
Houston Symphony
ORG
Q200959
Carnegie Hall
LOC
Q713223
artist-in-residence
Concept
Q7494486
Shepherd School of Music
ORG
Q842909
Rice University
LOC
Q81752
Bruckner's
PER
Q19972143
Symphonies 3-4 and 6-9
UNK
Q275815
sketches to Finale of the 9th
MEDIA
Q1316554
Mass No. 2
MEDIA
Q1387966
Te Deum
MEDIA
Q871369
Mozarteum University Salzburg
ORG
Q41254
Grammy
EVE
Q1274158
ECHO Klassik
ORG
Q1528686
Tanglewood
LOC
Q2916435
Aspen
ORG
Q4958433
Vail
ORG
Q1144875
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
ORG
Q1979804
Hans Graf
PER
Q1979804
Hans Graf
PER
1949-02-15T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
15 February 1949
DATE
1975-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1975
DATE
1979-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1979
DATE
1981-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1981
DATE
1995-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1995
DATE
1984-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1984
DATE
1994-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1994
DATE
1994-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1994
DATE
1996-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1996
DATE
1995-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1995
DATE
2003-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2003
DATE
1998-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1998
DATE
2004-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2004
DATE
2002-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2002
DATE
2000-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2000
DATE
2001-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2001
DATE
2006-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
January 2006
DATE
2013-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2013
DATE
2012-12-02T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2 December 2012
DATE
2013-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2013
DATE
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2015
DATE
2018-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2018
DATE
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2017
DATE
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2017
DATE
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2015
DATE
2018-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2018
DATE
2019-07-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
July 2019
DATE
2020-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2020
DATE
+1976^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1976
NUMBER
+3^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
3
NUMBER
-4^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-4
NUMBER
+6^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
6
NUMBER
-9^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-9
NUMBER
+9^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
9
NUMBER
+2^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2
NUMBER
+2018^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2018
NUMBER
-2021^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-2021
NUMBER
place of birth
date of birth
occupation
subsidiary
notable work
notable work
part of
composer
composer
composer