Chorus Director and Concertmaster

Jörn Hinnerk Andresen

Jörn Hinnerk Andresen comes from Schleswig-Holstein. He studied conducting, cembalo and piano in Dresden and Amsterdam. While still studying, he in 1999 got his first engagement at the theatre in Zwickau as Germany's youngest chorus director, and subsequently as concertmaster. In September 2003 he became chorus director and concertmaster at Koblenz City Theatre. While there, he as conductor acquired a broad repertory of operas, operettas, musicals, ballets and concerts.

From autumn 2008 to 2015 he has been chorus director and concertmaster at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and conducted the Gärtnerplatz Ensemble, including in the Kölner Philharmonie as well as at the Munich premiere of Telemann's opera »Der geduldige Socrates«. In 2004 he founded the Koblenz baroque orchestra Capella Confluentes. The Ensemble's repertory extends from the early baroque literature of the royal court in Warsaw to opera productions like Purcell's »King Arthur« and even Bach's Mass in B minor.

He has collaborated closely with the radio orchestras of WDR and RIAS and particularly with the chorus of the Bavarian Radio as evidenced by numerous CD recordings. Since 2008, Jörn Hinnerk Andresen has collaborated as chorus director at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna State Opera Chorus and with conductors like Pierre Boulez and Franz Welser-Möst.

Alongside of this he has taught orchestral conducting at the Cologne Academy of Music and has also been active as a juror in chorus competitions. For 2013, this accomplished baroque specialist has been invited by the English National Opera for Charpentier's »Medea«.