New conductor announced at Brandenburger Symphoniker
German conductor Andreas Spering will take over at the start of the 2023/24 season
(Photo credit: Ralf Bauer)
For an initial five-year contract, the German conductor Andreas Spering will be Germany’s new conductor Brandenburger Symphoniker .
He was selected from a field of eleven candidates in the final round and established himself as one of Germany’s leading specialists in historically informed performance practice.
Spering first studied with Gerd Zacher in Essen and later worked as a harpsichordist in Reinhard Goebel’s Musica Antiqua Köln ensemble.
He spent the 2021/22 season working with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Orchestra of the Niedersächischen Staatstheaters Hannover, the Beethovenorchester Bonn and the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, among others. He also returns to the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, and conducts a new production of Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” at the Opéra National de Lorraine.
Spering is a particular specialist in the music of Joseph Haydn and established Haydn’s only festival in Germany during his tenure as artistic director of the Brühler Schlosskonzerte. During this festival, Spering conducted more than 60 symphonies by Haydn, as well as eight of the composer’s operas and numerous oratorios.