| Biography | Christoph Altstaedt is a German conductor. 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, The Magic Flute, 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 Oper am Rhein, where he expanded his repertoire to include The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, La bohème, Luisa Miller, Carmen, The Barber of Seville and Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse by Ernst Toch. He also began to collaborate intensively with the Ballet am Rhein under Martin Schläpfer and with choreographers Mats Ek, Hans van Manen and Nils Christie.
Christoph Altstaedt was appointed interim chief conductor of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck from 2011 to 2013, where he conducted Cherubinis Médée and Mozarts Idomeneo. 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. |