Education
Schaller studied music at the Würzburg College of Music and medicine at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Schaller studied music at the Würzburg College of Music and medicine at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
He has established an international name for himself with recordings of all Anton Bruckner"s symphonies, including versions never before heard, for the Profil label of Edition Günter Hänssler. Forgotten operas and concert rarities feature prominently in his repertoire, examples being the first recordings of Karl Goldmark"s Merlin, Johann von Herbeck"s Great Mass for Studio Franken of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) in Nürnberg and Johann Simon Mayr"s Fedra for Norddeutscher Rundfunk. He took up his first post at the Hanover Staatsoper in 1993, became principal conductor at the Braunschweig Staatstheater in 1998 and was general music director at the Magdeburg Opera from 2003 to 2006.
He has worked freelance since 2006.
Schaller established the Ebrach Summer Music Festival in Franconia in 1990 and is its artistic director The event is staged in collaboration with BR"s Studio Franken.
In 2008, Schaller founded the Philharmonie Festiva. Its core of Munich Bach Soloists can be expanded with musicians selected from various renowned orchestra from all over Germany and beyond.
Orchestra conducting
Schaller conducts these orchestras:
Munich Radio Orchestra
NDR Radio Philharmonic
Hanover Opera
Radio Symphony Orchestra
George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest
Symphony Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre
Radio Symphony Orchestra of Prague
Teatr Wielki Orchestra of Warsaw
Meiningen Hofkapelle
Soloists of the Dresden Staatskapelle
Munich Bach Soloists
Magdeburg Philharmonic
Nürnberg Symphony
Braunschweig Staatsorchester.
