Andreas Schüller

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Andreas Schüller (born May 16, 1974 in Berlin ) is a German conductor . Until 2011 he was Kapellmeister at the Leipzig Opera and the Vienna Volksoper, as well as musical director of the Lower Saxony Young Philharmonic Orchestra and guest conductor of the Berlin Young Symphony. From 2013 to 2020 he was chief conductor at the Dresden State Operetta .

biography

Schüller first studied horn and piano in his hometown , later conducting . He was taught during his studies a. a. by Sebastian Weigle and Rolf Reuter . In the Berlin opera scene he appeared as a pianist and conductor and worked as an assistant for Marc Piollet , Rudolf Barschai and Lothar Zagrosek during his student days . There he met the Federal Youth Orchestra and the Young German Philharmonic Orchestra .

In 2002 he developed the production Die Liebe der Danae at the Salzburg Festival for Fabio Luisi , where he worked in the years that followed, initially as an assistant and from 2005 as choir director. In 2003 Andreas Schüller was accepted into the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council. Master classes led him to Roberto Paternostro and Peter Gülke .

He has been Kapellmeister at the Vienna Volksoper since the 2003/04 season and was also 1st Kapellmeister at the Leipzig Opera from the 2008/09 season to mid-2011.

He also conducted performances at the Komische Oper ( Staatsballett Berlin ) and the opera houses in Cologne and Graz. He conducted concerts a. a. with the Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig , the Berlin Symphony Orchestra , the Kassel State Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Jena Philharmonic.

Since the founding summer of 2005, Andreas Schüller has been the musical director of the Lower Austrian Festival in Retz, which, in addition to caring for church operas, is primarily dedicated to literature and thus tries to span an unusual cross-genre arc.

Since 2008 he has also been artistic director of the Young Philharmonic Orchestra of Lower Saxony and made guest appearances in 2009 and 2010 with the Young Symphony of Berlin at the Philharmonie Berlin . From the 2013/2014 season until 2020, Schüller was chief conductor at the Dresden State Operetta.

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SURNAME Schüller, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin