His recent debuts in the 2023/24 season at Les Arts in Valencia and with the Wiener Symphoniker led to immediate re-invitations. In the 2024/25 season, Cornelius Meister returns to the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre National de France, Orquesta Nacional de España, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, and to the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He will conduct the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the Berliner as well as the Kölner Philharmonie, and he will give his debut with the hr-Sinfonieorchester conducting Pierre Boulez’ ‘notations’ and Beethovens ‘Eroica’. With the Staatsorchester Stuttgart he performs, among others, Bruckner’s and Mahler’s eighth symphonies as well as all of Mendelssohn’s symphonies.
Opera productions in Stuttgart in the 2024/25 season include ‘Freischütz’, ‘Idomeneo’, ‘Parsifal’, and more.
With ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ he continues to work with the Wiener Staatsoper, who he has worked with since 2012.
Known for his wide repertoire, Cornelius Meister has performed works by more than 250 composers, including all the symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Sibelius, and Martinů, as well as all the tone poems by Richard Strauss, and many world premieres. He has appeared with the Concertgebouworkest, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra New York, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, several BBC orchestras, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala, TonhalleOrchester Zürich, the Korean KBS Symphony Orchestra, and the NDR, WDR, SWR, and BR radio orchestras (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester), as well as Zurich’s La Scintilla.