Julius Zeman, born in 1998 in Vienna, completed his studies in conducting, piano, and organ at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with distinction.

His upcoming conducting engagements include appearances with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Orchestra Sinfónica do Porto, at Bern Opera, and at the Tyrolean Festival Erl.

Since the 2023/24 season, Julius Zeman has been engaged at the Saarland State Theatre as Kapellmeister and répétiteur, where he has already developed a wide-ranging music-theatre repertoire. His most recent conducting credits include Mozart’s The Magic Flute and The Abduction from the Seraglio, Verdi’s Aida, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, and Kálmán’s The Duchess of Chicago. The premiere of Holst’s Savitri and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, conducted by Zeman, attracted great attention from audiences and the press (FAZ: “A modern operatic highlight!”). With Bock’s Anatevka, Julius Zeman appeared as a guest at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg and at the Theater im Pfalzbau.

From the very beginning of his musical career, the realization of innovative, conceptually coherent programmes and the associated communication of music has been of great importance to him. For this reason, Julius Zeman frequently seeks close contact with audiences in lecture-recitals, creating new spaces for encounter and for the shared experience and discovery of great music.

Julius Zeman regularly performs as a song accompanist and chamber musician with leading artists. For example, he appeared with Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (violin) in the ORF/3sat broadcast “Wir spielen für Österreich”, performing on Mozart’s original fortepiano.

Together with Shun Oi, he made the world’s first recording of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in its original version for two pianos for the label ARS Produktion.

Alongside his studies, Julius Zeman served as an assistant conductor to Leo Hussain at the Theater an der Wien (where he also worked as Head of Music Studies) and to Leopold Hager, with whom he collaborated closely as a harpsichordist, organist, and pianist. His cultural studies and music-analytical essays have been published in the Freiburger Universitätsblätter and Der Literarische Zaunkönig.

Julius Zeman is a Bösendorfer Artist.