Conductor - Andreas Sebastian Weiser

Andreas Sebastian Weiser, a graduate of the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, became a finalist of the first year of the International Conductors' Contest of Arturo Toscanini in Italy in 1985. Thanks to a scholarship provided by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst he also studied under Václav Neumann at the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (1987/88). One year later he became a second conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1990 the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra elected him a principal conductor. Therefore he became the youngest musical director in Germany. In 1993 he débuted at the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, when he quickly substituted for Semyon Bychkov and took over conducting of Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony. Then further invitations followed - by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Bach Collegium München. Starting from the first common concert in Ravenna in 1995 he regularly cooperated with the violoncellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich (among others, a working of Britten's War Requiem with the Orchestra Nazionalle della RAI Torino, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the NDR Sinfonieorchester). He regularly cooperates as an assistant with the principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic Lorin Maazel. He cooperates with the conductor Zubin Mehta as well (f.e. he cooperated by opening Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valence). Andreas S. Weiser conducted, among others, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra / Bavarian State Philharmonic, the MDR Sinfonieorchester and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, he was a guest of the Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Nice, the State Theater in Kassel, the Prague State Opera, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Rome, Palermo, Barcelona and Madrid (RTVE). He recorded with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Virtuosi di Praga. He is a principal conductor of Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra and a conductor of the Czech Chamber Orchestra.