Guest Conductor

Andreas Kowalewitz

Andreas Kowalewitz was born in Hanover and completed piano and conducting studies at the Academy of Music and Theatre there. In 1985 he was recruited by Kassel Staatstheater, initially as a concertmaster and solo coach and later rose to first coordinated concertmaster and conducted the premiere of Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz's opera »Achill unter den Mädchen« as well as the European premiere of Dominick Argento's »The Dream of Valentino«. In addition, he was assistant to Sylvain Cambreling at Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in »Der Ring des Nibelungen« and also took care of its production at the Frankfurt Opera as assistant conductor.

In 1996 Andreas Kowalewitz moved as deputy general music director to Nuremberg City Theatre where he, among other things, conducted the German premiere of John Adams's »The Death of Klinghoffer«. 2003–2020 he has been active as concertmaster at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and has here conducted numerous works in all categories of the musical theatre like »Romeo and Juliet«, »Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny«, »La Cage aux Folles«, »Das Schlaue Füchslein«, »Das Dschungelbuch«, »Der Bettelstudent«, »Cabaret«, »Kifferwahn«, »Chitty Chitty Bang Bang«, »Bussi – Das Munical«, »A Little Night Music« and the world premieres of »Frau Schindler«, »Pumuckl«, »Drei Männer im Schnee« and »Gefährliche Liebschaften«, for which he was awarded with the Deutsche Musical Theater Preis 2015 in the category »Beste Musikalische Gestaltung«.

Further engagements as a conductor took him, among other things, to the podium of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra and the WDR Rundfunkorchester (Cologne), the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Athens State Orchestra as well as the Bonn Opera. As an arranger he has done commissions for the WDR Symphony Orchestra (Cologne), the Bavarian Radio Chorus as well as the brass horns of the Berlin Philharmonic.