[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"52","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"285","style":"width: 125px; float: right; height: 178px; margin: 10px; ","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"200"}}]]Bernhard Waritschlager was born in Altötting. After graduating from secondary school he studied to become a music teacher at the Munich University of Music (major: violin with Monika Rhode, piano with Prof. Ansgar Janke, Harmony & counterpoint with Prof. Peter Wittrich). His education in conducting he obtained from Prof. Gerd Guglhör and Max Frey (direction of ensembles and choirs) as well as Prof. Christoph Adt (orchestra direction). After graduating with distinction, he continued to study musicology and dramatics at the Munich University of Music and the LMU Munich. In 2005, he obtained the PhD for his work on Joseph Haydn's opera seria with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Mauser (German thesis title: "Opera seria bei Joseph Haydn"). Since 2007, Bernhard Waritschlager teaches music at a Munich secondary school.
With his artistic activity, Bernhard Waritschlager focuses on the vocal and instrumental chamber music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Besides his involvement in many concerts as a violinist and harpsichordist (amongst others he plays with the "L'armonia parlatina", which he co-founded) he also frequently appears as a composer. In 2002, his Toccata for brass quartett won the first prize at the international Hoftrompeter-Mayrhofer composition competition.
Bernhard Waritschlager was conductor of MiO from Dezember 2010 until August 2011.