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Markus returns to the Gürzenich Orchester Köln, where he was previously General Music Director of the City of Cologne and Gürzenich-Kapellmeister for 11 years. This month he conducts performances of Wagner/Henk de Vlieger The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure – a distillation of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle into a “musical nutshell of 70 minutes”. Markus is no stranger to Wagner having conducted the complete Ring cycle, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg during his tenure in Köln.