Christian Ehwald, 2019.
Christian Ehwald (born 1953 in Eberswalde) is a German conductor and academic teacher.
Christian Ehwald (born 1953 in Eberswalde) is a German conductor and academic teacher.
Ehwald studied at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" with the conductor Horst Förster from 1973 to 1978. Later, he continued his studies at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory N.A. Rimsky Korssakov with Arvid Jansons and Mariss Jansons.
From 1981 until 1988, he was principal conductor of the Jena Philharmonic.
From 1981, he was guest conductor among others with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the symphony orchestras of the Bavarian Radio, the West German Radio and the Central German Radio, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Petersburg Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and many others.
From 1998 to 2002, he was music director at the Opera House Magdeburg and chief conductor of the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2002, he received an appointment at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" and at the same time took over the direction of the university orchestra. His students won several 1st prizes at important international competitions:
Ehwald has worked frequently with the Staatsoper Berlin and the Gewandhaus Leipzig Orchestra]and has toured with the Berlin Staatskapelle to England, Australia and New Zealand. He has conducted various television productions among others with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra Rome, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Zagreb Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Between 2008 and 2014, Ehwald was also music director of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, China. [7]
Ehwald is married to musicologist Tatjana Ehwald. They have two daughters: music journalist Mascha Drost and pianist Natalia Ehwald.
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