Biography

The Vienna-based Danish-German conductor, composer/orchestrator, and pianist, Bernhard Melbye Voss, made his conducting debut with the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra with a Danish program at the Wiener Musikverein. Driven by his passion for film music, he is working as a session conductor for film music productions at the internationally acclaimed Synchron Stage Vienna, where he has been conducting scores for Netflix, Disney+, Marvel, DC Comics, Paramount, AMC, Warner, HBO, Amazon Studios, BBC, Dharma Productions, Tencent, Blizzard, ActiVision, ByteDance, Apple Arcade and others. In addition to his work as a session conductor, he works as an orchestrator for film music and has been guest lecturing about film music and scoring session techniques at the Konrad Wolf Film University Babelsberg. With a profound interest in languages, the relation between music and languages, and in the linguistic features of music, he has also worked extensively with opera. After finishing his conducting studies at the University of Music and performing Arts, Vienna, he continued his studies of Italian opera in Rome with a scholarship awarded by the Foundation of Queen Ingrid of Denmark. Besides working with several European orchestras, he holds the position as chief conductor of the Valsassina Chamber Orchestra, Vienna. His pianistic focus on improvisation is based on his fascination with the similarities and connections between different cultures and styles of music. As a composer, he has chosen to work with a wide range of stylistic influences. In 2021 he conducted the world premiere of his first symphony on the main stage of the Donauinselfest, Vienna.