Concertmaster

Kiril Stankow

Kiril Stankow was born in Neubrandenburg/Germany and began his musical career as a young student at the Rostock University of Music and Drama. From 2005 to 2012, he studied at the »Franz Liszt« University of Music in Weimar.

In 2013, he became second in the »Concours international de jeunes chefs d’orchestre« conducting competition in Besançon. A year later, he was a finalist in Interaktion XII in Berlin. In addition, Kiril Stankow has been granted a bursary by the Richard Wagner Society and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

He made his debut in the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 2010 and has been assistant to Anthony Bramall at Oper Leipzig and to Wladimir Jurowski at the Gewandhaus a number of times. In 2013, he worked for a short time as Deputy Director of Studies at Oper Leipzig. Further posts as assistant have taken him to the Philharmonic Orchestras in Rostock, Würzburg, Munich and the Neue Oper Wien.

Kiril Stankow has given concerts with such orchestras as the MDR Symphony Orchestra, Das Kritische Orchester Berlin, the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Franche-Comté Youth Orchestras, the »Ensemble New Babylon« and the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg. He made his US debut in 2011 with the IDRS Symphony Orchestra, conducting the first performance of Nigel Treherne's »Concerto for 2 Oboes«.

Kiril Stankow is Conductor in Residence of the »junge norddeutsche philharmonie« and conducted its inaugural concert in 2010. Under him, the orchestra made its debut in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, opened the »Festival für verfemte Musik« and played at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in 2015. In addition, he is principal conductor of the »Orchester’91 Hamburg«.

Kiril Stankow was engaged as the concertmaster and assistant to the principal conductor at the Staatstheater am  Gärtnerplatz for the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 season.