Mark Rohde, a native of Hamburg, is Principal Conductor at the Mainfranken Theatre in Würzburg. He has conducted renowned orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the NDR Radio Philharmonic and the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. His regular musical partners include soloists such as Antje Weithaas, Nils Mönkemeyer and Maximilian Hornung. Guest engagements have taken him to opera houses in Nuremberg, Bonn, Kassel and St Gallen, amongst others, as well as on tours to South Korea and China.

After studying the violin in Frankfurt am Main and conducting under Prof. Christof Prick in Hamburg, Rohde began his career as a répétiteur and Kapellmeister. In 2011, he became Principal Conductor at the Hanover State Opera, where, in addition to the Italian opera repertoire, he conducted late Romantic and contemporary works in particular. There he worked with Bryn Terfel and Neill Shicoff, amongst others. In 2019, he moved to the National Theatre in Mannheim as Deputy General Music Director; from 2020 to 2025, he was General Music Director at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin.

As a guest conductor, he led the premiere of *Giselle* at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2023 and, in 2024, conducted the Gewandhaus Orchestra at the Leipzig Opera in performances of *La Bohème * and *Hansel and Gretel*. In the same year, he was chairman of the jury at the International Aeolus Wind Instrument Competition and conducted the main ceremony marking German Unity Day, as well as the ZDF programme ‘Christmas with the Federal President’.

In 2022, his first CD featuring works by the composer Emilie Mayer was released by Dabringhaus und Grimm. In 2025, he recorded works by Josef Schelb with the Munich Radio Orchestra and renowned soloists; the recording was released in 2026.

Contemporary music is a particular focus of his artistic work. As a frequent guest at the Munich Biennale, Rohde has conducted world premieres of works by composers including Jörg Widmann, Giorgio Battistelli, Peter Michael Hamel and Klaus Lang.