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Christoph Altstaedt (b. January 19, 1980 in Heidelberg) is a German conductor.

Life

As a junior student at the Detmold Music Academy, he studied piano with Edmundo Lasheras and conducting with Joachim Harder. He also took piano lessons with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hanover. He subsequently enrolled as a regular student in the piano class of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, then continuing his studies at the Music Academy “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin from 2002 onwards, where his teachers included Hans-Dieter Baum and Alexander Vitlin. Starting in 2003, he became a fellow of the German Music Council’s Conductors’ Forum, attending courses with Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez (as part of the Lucerne Festival Academy), Sebastian Weigle, Johannes Kalitzke and Jorma Panula^[1]. In 2008 and 2009 he was one of three conductors to be invited as conducting fellows to Tanglewood. There, he assisted James Levine in a production of Don Giovanni^[2].

He made his debut as an opera conductor in 2006 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where he had been engaged as a répétiteur during the last season under Klaus Schultz. There, he conducted Gianni Schicchi, Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Werther, Hänsel und Gretel, La Traviata and Cinderella by Peter Maxwell Davies.

In 2010 he took a conducting position at the Deutsche Opera am Rhein, where he expanded his repertoire to include Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, La Bohème, Luisa Miller, Carmen, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse by Ernst Toch. He also began to collaborate intensively with the [https://www.operamrhein.de/en_EN/ballett Ballet am Rhein] under Martin Schläpfer and with choreographers Mats Ek, Hans van Manen and Nils Christie. He made guest appearances in Luxembourg with Massenet’s Manon, at Opera North with Hänsel und Gretel and Don Giovanni, at Finland’s National Opera Helsinki with Così fan tutte, in Glyndebourne, Savonlinna and Zurich with Die Entführung aus dem Serail^[3] and in Basel, where he conducted Die Zauberflöte^[4]^[5].

Christoph Altstaedt was appointed interim chief conductor of the [https://www.tsoi.at Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck] from 2011 to 2013, where he conducted Cherubini’s Médée and Mozart’s Idomeneo. On the concert stage, he has worked with soloists such as Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis, Mark Padmore and Radek Baborák, among others.

From 2004 to 2011 he founded and directed the “Junges Klangforum Mitte Europa”, a youth orchestra uniting music students from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, which won such awards as the “Praemium Imperiale” and the “Marion Dönhoff Prize”, among others. Christoph Altstaedt has a keen interest in education work and has conducted the orchestra of the [https://www.udk-berlin.de/universitaet/fakultaet-musik/institute/julius-stern-institut/ Julius-Stern-Institute] at the [https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/home/ Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)], the State Youth Orchestras of the Saarland, [https://www.landesjugendorchester.de/cms/index.php Baden-Wurttemberg] and Berlin as well as the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the [https://www.bundesjugendorchester.de/startseite/ Bundesjugendorchester]^[6] and the [https://junge-norddeutsche.de Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie]^[7].

Alongside his opera career, he has conducted symphony orchestras like the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart of the SWR, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Münchner Symphoniker, the Ensemble Resonanz, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Norrlands Opera and the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa de Música. Several of his performances, including with the Bamberger Symphoniker, have been recorded for radio.

Christoph Altstaedt studied medicine at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, receiving his license to practice medicine in 2016.

Discography

Günter Raphael: Symphony No. 2, Op. 34; [https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/G%FCnter-Raphael-1903-1960-Symphonien-Nr-2-5/hnum/8177587 CPO]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.dirigentenforum.de/orchesterdirigenten/alumni.html|title=Dirigentenforum Alumni|last=|first=|date=26 November 2018|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/07-28-2009_james-levine-conducts-don-giovanni.htm|title=Tanglewood: Don Giovanni, review|last=|first=|date=28 July 2009|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicomh.com/classical/reviews-classical/die-entfuhrung-aus-dem-serail-glyndebourne-tour-lewes|title=Glyndebourne: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, review|last=|first=|date=11 October 2015|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.operabase.com/a/Christoph_Altstaedt/23121/de|title=Opera Base: Artist Christoph Altstaedt|last=|first=|date=26 November 2018|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.peterhagmann.com/?tag=altstaedt-christoph|title=Basel: Zauberflöte, review|last=|first=|date=23 December 2015|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundesjugendorchester.de/orchester/personen/dirigenten/|title=Bundesjugendorchester: Dirigenten|last=|first=|date=26 November 2018|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=https://junge-norddeutsche.de/orchestermitbums/|title=Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie #orchestermitbums|last=|first=|date=26 November 2018|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}

Life

Discography

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