Ud Joffe

Ud Joffe (born October 17, 1967 in Israel ) is an Israeli conductor .

Joffe studied at the Rubin Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem and with Uwe Gronostay at the Berlin University of the Arts . Since the mid- 1990s , Joffe has given concerts with various orchestras such as the Berlin and Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Brandenburg Philharmonic Potsdam and the Baltic Philharmonic Danzig . From 1996 to 1998 he was director of the Sibelius Orchestra Berlin. In 1997 , Joffe took over the management of the Potsdamer Kantorei at the Erlöserkirche as the successor to Friedrich Meinel . In 1999 he founded the New Chamber Choir Potsdam and in 2000 the New Chamber Orchestra Potsdam. From 2000 to 2011 Joffe was director of the New Choir Berlin. In 2001 he initiated the first Vocalise, a Potsdam music festival for vocal music, which has taken place annually since then. Ud Joffe participated in numerous opera projects at the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam. Many opera projects as well as chamber music work shape his overall artistic image.

Ud Joffe lives in Potsdam. He is chairman of the Potsdam synagogue community, one of the three parallel Jewish communities in the Brandenburg state capital.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Central Council of Jews in Germany