The Austrian conductor Christoph Koncz has already strongly established himself on the international conducting circuit, performing with orchestras such as London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. In September 2023 he started his tenure as Music Director of Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse. Currently in his sixth season as Chief Conductor of Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Christoph Koncz has also been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the renowned French period instrument ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre. Christoph Koncz is particularly noted for his interpretations of works by W.A. Mozart. His recording of the Complete Violin Concertos as soloist and conductor with Les Musiciens du Louvre was released by Sony Classical in 2020 under the title Mozart’s Violin and caused an international sensation for being the first recording of these famous works on the composer’s original Baroque violin. Born 1987 in Konstanz into an Austrian‐​Hungarian family of musicians, Christoph Koncz received his first violin lessons at the age of four. At the age of just nine, he received worldwide acclaim for starring as child prodigy Kaspar Weiss in the Canadian feature film The Red Violin, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 2005 he enrolled in the conducting class of Mark Stringer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 2008, at the age of twenty, Christoph Koncz was appointed principal second violin of Wiener Philharmoniker. An avid chamber musician, his musical partners include Leonidas Kavakos, Joshua Bell, Vilde Frang, Renaud Capuçon, Kim Kashkashian, Gautier Capuçon, Andreas Ottensamer and Rudolf Buchbinder. His concert engagements have taken him to numerous countries across Europe and to the Middle East, Asia, Australia as well as North and South America.  This is his first appearance with the Israel Philharmonic.