Sebastian Lang-Lessing
Sebastian Lang-Lessing is a German conductor.
Lang-Lessing received the Ferenc Fricsay Award at age 24. He started his career at the Hamburg State Opera as an assistant conductor. He subsequently became resident conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Lang-Lessing was chief conductor of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2011. He has served as chief conductor and artistic director of the Opera National de Lorraine.
Lang-Lessing has been music director of the San Antonio Symphony since 2010. In March 2019, the orchestra announced that Lang-Lessing is to conclude his music directorship of the orchestra at the close of the 2019-2020 season.
Together with Niki Vasilakis and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Lang-Lessing was nominated for the 2006 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album for the album Mendelssohn, Bruch, Ravel.
