Andreas Spering

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Andreas Spering (* 1966 ) is a German conductor and harpsichord player who specializes in early music . He is the younger brother of the conductor Christoph Spering and the grandson of the Simmern superintendent Ernst Karl Gillmann .

Life

Andreas Spering studied with Gerd Zacher in Essen . From 1990 to 1994 he was a harpsichordist at Musica Antiqua Cologne .

Since 1996 he has been the artistic director of the Brühl Palace Concerts and the Capella Augustina orchestra there, which he founded in the same year . This ensemble works according to historical performance practice . The summer concerts are strongly committed to the work of Joseph Haydn .

In 1999, Andreas Spering was appointed musical director of the Handel Festival at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , where he conducted numerous operas by Georg Friedrich Handel in the years up to 2007 . In 2018 and 2019 he returned for an Alcina. At the 50th Handel Festival in Halle an der Saale, he conducted Handel's Rodrigo . In 2005 Spering was the musical director of the staged revival of the Handel opera Siroe in Götzis, initiated by Christian Baier , under the direction of Sebastian Hirn . In addition, he worked at the opera houses of Antwerp, Seville, Gothenburg, Bern, Rouen, Strasbourg, Copenhagen, Essen, Hanover and many others. He has conducted concerts with many important orchestras such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Spanish National Orchestra, the Scottish Camber Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Gothenburg Symphony, Helsinki and the New Japan Philharmonic.

Recordings (selection)

  • Cantatas for Esterhazy by Joseph Haydn
  • Siroe , by Georg Friedrich Handel.
  • Imeneo by Georg Friedrich Handel.
  • The Conflagration by Joseph Haydn
  • Erwin and Elmire by Johann Friedrich Reichardt .
  • Serenades op. 11 and op. 16 by Johannes Brahms
  • The Creation by Joseph Haydn.
  • Il ritorno di Tobia by Joseph Haydn.
  • Applause from Joseph Haydn.

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personal data
SURNAME Spering, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1966