Pannon Philharmonic

The Swedish conductor began his career as a violinist, was the winner of the Paganini Competition, assistant of the legendary Sándor Végh, and concert master of various orchestras - Camerata Slazburg, Volksopera Vienna, Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In 1995, he founded the Philharmonia Wien-t, and then 2001-2003 was the principal conductor of the Tasmanian Orchestra, 2003-2008 of the Haydn Orchestra in Bolzano. He has conducted all of the bigger Australian orchestras, worked with almost every Scandinavian ensemble, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Lituanian National Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestra Fondazione Arena di Verona. Ola Rudner is a well-known opera conductor; he has conducted at the Vienna Opera for years and is a regular guest performer of Australia’s, Sweden, and Italy’s opera houses. 


Since 1997 Ola Rudner has conducted all the major Australian orchestras: the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestras of Melbourne, Queensland, Tasmania, Adelaide and Perth. In Scandinavia he has worked with most of the orchestras including the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic and the orchestras in Trondheim, Bergen, Aalborg, Malmö, Helsingborg etc.

He also collaborated with orchestras like the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Latvian National Philharmonic, Orchestra Fondazione Arena di Verona, and many times with the Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester.

With the Philharmonia Wien he performs annually at the Musikverein Wien, and took them on tour to Japan, Poland, Yugoslavia Austria and Turkey.
His long-term relationship with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra let to recording all works by the British composer Sally Beamish for BIS. In 2005 Beamish’s Viola Concerto was added to those recordings with Tabea Zimmermann as soloist.

Ola Rudner is also an important opera conductor. Since many years he conducts at the Volksoper Wien and is regularly invited to the opera houses in Australia, Sweden and Italy. His repertoire spans from Mozart’s Magic Flute, Così, Figaro, Titus and Idomeneo, Beethoven’s Fidelio and Verdi’s Il Trovatore and La Traviata, Operettas by Offenbach, Strauss, Lehár and Kálmán.

Engagements of the past seasons included his debuts at the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, RAI Torino, the Slovenian Philharmonic, the SWR- Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, the Luxemburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rheinische Philharmonie. One of the his operatic highlights of the 2006/07 season has been the production of Bizet’s Carmen with the Mozarteum Orchestra at the Salzburger Festspielhaus in March 2007 (for the Landestheater Salzburg) which let to an immediate reinvitation to conduct Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in 2008.

Upcoming projects include concerts with the London Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, the Bremen Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestra Filarmonica di Verona, Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro “La Fenice” the Camerata Salzburg and others.

His recordings for Australian label ABC Classics with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, include Rossini Ouvertures, a series of composer portraits of Australian contemporary composers Carl Vine, Elena Katz-Chernin and Brenton Broadstock as well as Arias of Haydn and Mozart with singers Sara Macliver and Teddy Tahu Rhodes.