Patrick Hahn is a versatile figure whose activities extend to conducting, piano playing, composition, and jazz. He is the general music director of the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra.
Hahn was born on July 17, 1995, in Graz, Austria. Although his family was not musical, he earned a place in the Graz Boys Choir as a boy treble soloist. Hahn enrolled at the Graz University of the Arts at age 11, studying piano. As he continued his studies, he added conducting and composition. At 12, he wrote an opera, Die Frittatensuppe, which was premiered the following year in Graz under his ow...