Manfred Honeck has firmly established himself as a leading conductor. He is now entering his 15th season as Conductor music of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, whose contract was extended last year through the 2027-2028 season. He is a regular guest at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, as well as major European venues and festivals such as the BBC Proms, Salzburg Festival, Berlin Musikfest, Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn and Grafenegg Festival.

Manfred Honeck's work in Pittsburgh is extensively documented by recordings on the Reference Recordings label, featuring works by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Shostakovich, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and others. They have received several outstanding reviews and awards, including GRAMMY® nominations, which they won for "Best Orchestral Performance" in 2018. Their latest release, Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, paired with Stucky's Silent Spring, was an "Editor's Choice" by Gramophone.

Born in Austria, Manfred Honeck completed his musical training at the Vienna University of Music. His many years of experience as a member of the viola section of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra has had a lasting influence on his work as Conductor orchestra, and his interpretive artistry is based on a determination to venture deep beneath the surface of the music. He began his career as Conductor an assistant to Claudio Abbado and as Conductor of the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra. Later, he was hired by the Zurich Opera House, where he received the European Conducting Prize in 1993. Since then he has been one of the three principal conductors of the Leipzig MDR Symphony Orchestra, Conductor music of the Norwegian National Opera, Conductor principal guest conductor of theFilarmonica orchestra in Oslo and the CzechFilarmonica orchestra and Conductor principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm.

Manfred Honeck is also very active as Conductor the opera. In the four seasons he has been Conductor general music of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, he has conducted premieres of works by Berlioz, Mozart, Poulenc, Strauss, Verdi and Wagner. He has also been a guest conductor at major institutions such as the Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels, Royal Opera Copenhagen, and the Salzburg Festival. In 2020, Beethoven's anniversary year, he conducted a new production of Fidelio (1806 version) at the Theater an der Wien.

As a guest Conductor , Manfred Honeck has worked with major international orchestras around the world, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Zurich Tonhalle-Orchester, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and the Vienna Philharmonic. In the United States he has conducted all the major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony. He was also Conductor artistic director of the Wolfegg International Concerts in Germany for more than twenty-five years.

Manfred Honeck has earned honorary doctorates from several universities in the United States and has been awarded the honorary title of professor by the Austrian Federal President. In 2018, the jury of the International Classical Music Awards declared him "Artist of the Year."

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