During the 2025-26 season, Andreas Ottensamer makes his HGO debut conducting Hansel and Gretel. In the 2024-25 season, Ottensamer made conducting debuts with Mozart Orchestra Salzburg at the Mozart Week; Tonkünstler Orchestra; Basel Symphony Orchestra; Music College Winterthur; Iceland Symphony Orchestra; and Naples Philharmonic. He will return to conduct the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, and Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra. Recent highlights include debuts with Basel Chamber Orchestra in a tour of Asia, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Metropolitain Montreal, Seoul Philharmonic, Chamber Academy Potsdam, Sofia Philharmonic, Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra, Janacek Philharmonic, and the Liszt Chamber Orchestra. In 2023, Ottensamer curated the program of the Classic Revolution Festival at the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, Korea, consisting of seven symphonic and three chamber music concerts including the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic. In 2021, Ottensamer was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize, 1st Prize, of the Gstaad Festival Conducting Academy. Since then, he has joined Maestro Riccardo Muti in his Italian Opera Academy, assisted Sir Simon Rattle with the BR Symphony Orchestra, Francois-Xavier Roth with the London Symphony Orchestra, and Christian Thielemann in a production of Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Vienna State Opera. Ottensamer is artistic director of the Bürgenstock Festival in Switzerland and the Artström Festival at the Stienitz-Lake near Berlin, Germany. A renowned clarinetist, he has performed as a soloist in the major concert halls around the world with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Seoul Philharmonic and the Netherlands Philharmonic; and he held the position of principal clarinetist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 2011 to 2025.