The German conductor Christian Blex is currently assistant conductor of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. A significant milestone in his career so far has been winning the Siemens Conductors Scholarship. He has assisted Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, and was a conducting fellow at the renowned Karajan Akademie in Berlin.
As well as assisting Kirill Petrenko, he has worked with leading conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Harding, Jakub Hrůša, Daniele Gatti, Alan Gilbert, Hannu Lintu, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Sakari Oramo, Tugan Sokhiev and Christian Thielemann, and with major orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Karajan Akademie of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck and the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra.
Christian Blex graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Warwick, going on to take a Master’s degree in Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Oxford, and is also studying with Ole Kristian Ruud at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He was an exchange student in Johannes Schlaefli’s class at the Zurich University of the Arts and with Nicolás Pasquet at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar, and has participated in masterclasses with Klaus Mäkelä, Vasily Petrenko, Hannu Lintu, Jorma Panula and James Gaffigan.
He was a scholarship-holder of the German Conductors’ Forum and is a member of the Nordic Conductors’ Forum.
