Jochen Rieder

Conductor Jochen Rieder is best known for his work with singers, although he is also active as an orchestral conductor. He has had a long association with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, with whom he has performed and recorded with a wide variety of ensembles. Rieder began his career as an assistant Kapellmeister with the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in southwestern Germany from 1992 to 1995. He scored a major breakthrough when he was employed as an assistant to conductor Christian Thielemann in a production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Bayreuth Festival. In 2009, Rieder made his recording debut in 2014 with Kaufmann, leading the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on the album You Mean the World to Me. In the early 2020s, Rieder began to cultivate a new partnership with rising soprano Hera Hyesang Park, conducting the Orchestra del Teatro San Felice di Genova on her recital album Breathe.