Music Director—Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Music Director—Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra
Chief Conductor—Residentie Orchestra The Hague from 2025 Principal Guest Conductor—Oregon Symphony 

Jun Märkl is a highly respected interpreter of core Germanic repertoire and has become renowned for his refined and idiomatic explorations of the French Impressionists. He currently serves as Music Director of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and is the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, Netherlands, having completed a four-year term as principal guest conductor of that same esteemed orchestra. He also serves as principal guest conductor of the Oregon Symphony. 

Märkl’s expertise in the world of opera and long historical relationships with the state operas of Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Metropolitan Opera of New York, San Francisco Opera and New National Theatre in Tokyo have been complemented over the past many decades by his orchestral music directorships of the Orchestre national de Lyon, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Basque National Orchestra of San Sebastian and Malaysia Philharmonic.

Märkl regularly guest conducts the leading orchestras of North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Europe with special connections in the United States to the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Atlanta, Dallas, Baltimore and Cincinnati, and the Minnesota Orchestra; in Europe with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Tonkünstler Orchestra Vienna and Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken; in Australia and New Zealand with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony and New Zealand Symphony; and in Asia with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan, Osaka Symphony, Kyoto Symphony and Singapore Symphony. 

Märkl has conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and many others. 

In recognition of his achievements in France, he was honored in 2012 with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Märkl has an extensive discography—among the more than 55 albums he has recorded are the complete Schumann symphonies with the NHK Symphony Orchestra; Mendelssohn and Wagner with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra; and works by Ravel, Messiaen and a highly acclaimed Debussy series with the Orchestre National de Lyon. He is currently working on a cycle of works by Camille Saint-Saëns, Richard Strauss and Toshio Hosokawa.  

Born in Munich, Märkl won the conducting competition of the Deutscher Musikrat in 1986 and studied at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Soon after, he appeared in opera houses throughout Europe followed by his first music directorships at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken and the Nationaltheater Mannheim. 

Märkl is highly dedicated to work with young musicians: for many years, he worked as principal conductor at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. He teaches as a guest professor at the Kunitachi College of Music Tokyo, and he recently founded the National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.