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The German conductor, choral conductor and organist, Andreas Mitschke, trained as a professional dancer, studied musicology, history of art and church - music before focusing on conducting. He obtained his Magister Artium degree from Universität Leipzig (2002-2008); and his Diploma from the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar (2004-2010). His experience comes from being assisting the MDR childrens choir (2006-2010) and being the deputy choral director of the Suhl boys choir and the Suhl singers’ academy. Important influences came from courses and workshops with Sir Roger Norrington, Thomas Hengelbrock, Simon Halsey and Ton Koopman. In 2007 he founded the Enchore Leipzig ensemble from former singers of the MDR children’s choir, with which he performed in competitions and concerts both at home and abroad. He was their Artistic Director from October 2007 to 2016, and won with them, amongst others, 1st place in the 2009 Saxony choir competition. Multiple radio and TV recordings document this work. Since 2014 conducts the Jazz Choir “inTune” Halle.
His open-air performance of Verdi's Requiem in Dresden in 2011 was awarded the 1st cultural award of the EKD. Also in the same year he assisted GMD Frank Beermann (Wagner: Tristian and Isolde) for the Wagner production of the North-West-German Philharmonic Orchestra (NWD). Andreas Mitschke performed concerts with the Staatskapelle Halle, Jena Philharmonic, Magdeburg Philharmonic, Anhaltische Phiharmonie Dessau, Leipzig Symphonic Orchestra, Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig and Hannoversche Hofkapelle. Currently, Junges Mitteldeutsches Barockensemble (Central German Youth Baroque Orchestra) is being founded under his auspices, championed by Ton Koopman.
Past highlights include concerts of Richard Wagner's Liebesmahl der Apostel and Symphonie C major within the international Wagner Festival 2015 in Leipzig (with the Leipzig Symophony Orchestra) and the performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony in Gewandhaus Leipzig 2016.
Andreas Mitschke worked together with internationally renowned soloists such as Matthias Kirschnereit (piano), Ragna Schirmer (piano), Gustav Rivinius (Cello), Carolin Masur (vocals) and could, amongst others, be experienced at the MDR-musical summer, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Salzgitter musical days, as well as the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig and the Gewandhaus Leipzig. He curreently lives in Leipzig, Germany. |
