Acclaimed for his interpretations of Wagner and Strauss, as well as for his commitment to contemporary music, Marc Albrecht is a regular guest at Europe’s most prestigious opera houses and orchestras. In the early years of his conducting career, Albrecht spent several seasons at the opera houses of Hamburg and Dresden, and also was appointed personal assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna. In 1995 he embarked on a highly successful 6 year tenure as Music Director of the Staatstheater Darmstadt, and from 2006-2011, he was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, a partnership that produced several acclaimed recordings, and ended with a critically praised performances of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder in Strasbourg and Paris. From September 2011 he is the Chief Conductor of both the Netherlands Opera and Netherlands Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestras.

Marc Albrecht has appeared with many key orchestras in Europe including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Staatskapelle Dresden, Munich Philharmonic, and the Orchestre National de Lyon. In 2006 he made his BBC Proms debut in London with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Recent successes have included his US debut with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, return visits to the Hallé Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and debut performances with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest (The Hague), Orchestre National de France, Maggio Musicale Firenze and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart. Future highlights include debuts with the Gothenburg Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, and performances with the Filarmonia della Scala, and the Orchestre Nazionale Sinfonica della RAI Torino.

In the opera house, Marc Albrecht’s highly acclaimed work during the past seasons has included a new production of Der fliegende Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival (2003 – 2006), Die Bacchantinnen by Wellesz at the Salzburg Festival (2003) as well as Janacek’s From the House of the Dead at the Opéra National de Paris (2005). From 2001-2004 he was Principal Guest Conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, leading successful productions such as Messiaen’s Saint Francois d’Assise, and he also maintains a close relationship with the Semperoper Dresden, where amongst others he has conducted La Damnation de Faust, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Elektra.

Recent highlights include Henze’s Die Bassariden at the Bavarian State Opera, Fidelio and Carmen at the Netherlands Opera (the latter with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra) his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Der fliegende Holländer (with Bryn Terfel in the title role), Henze’s Der Prinz von Homburg at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, and Lulu at the Geneva Opera and at the Salzburg Festival (with the Vienna Philharmonic). Forthcoming productions include a double bill of Zemlinsky’s Eine Florentinische Tragödie and Der Zwerg at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, and Tannhauser and Die Soldaten at Zurich Opera, and in 2011/12, his first season as Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Opera, he will conduct Elektra, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s Orest.

Marc Albrecht has made a sequence of acclaimed Pentatone recordings with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, including discs of Strauss tone poems, the piano concertos of Dvorak and Schumann with Martin Helmchen, a disc of French works by Dukas, Koechlin and Ravel, and the orchestral music of Berg.