Andreas Spering

Conductor

“Handelians have never had it so good. Spering’s conducting is a sheer delight.”
Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times (Classical CD of the Week on release of Handel Siroe, ré di Persia, Harmonia Mundi)

Andreas Spering belongs to the leading specialists of historically informed performance. Spering was strongly influenced by his studies with Gerd Zacher in Essen, and his position as harpsichordist with Musica Antiqua Köln and Reinhard Goebel (1990-1994). Since 1996 Spering has been Artistic Director of the Brühl Castle Concerts and the Capella Augustina which he founded. In its ninth season he now focuses on the works of Joseph Haydn for the summer concerts thus establishing the first and sole Haydn festival in Germany.

As an opera conductor he has conducted Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Beethoven’s Fidelio with the Gothenberg Opera, Haendel’s Rinaldo and Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro in Antwerp and Gent for the Vlaamse Opera. In 1999 Andreas Spering was appointed Music Director of the Handel Festival at the Baden State Theater in Karlsruhe. There he conducted many Handel operas. In 2007, he was invited by the Théâtre Municipal de Luxembourg to perform Mozart’s Figaro with Concerto Köln. He will conduct there in October 2010 Mozarts Cosi fan tutte with Capella Augustina. Furthermore, he performed at the operas in Hannover, Sevilla, Essen and Halle. In 2010, he will conduct Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Festival d’Aix en Provence, and La Finta Giardiniera in 2012.

Spering has conducted the Orchesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica de Tenerife, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Kammerorchester Basel, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Witold Lutoslawski Philharmonic Wroclaw, Musikkollegium Winterthur, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the radio orchestras of Hanover, Leipzig, Munich as well as the WDR Symphony Orchestra and a complete concert cycle with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. In 2010, he was invited by the Orchestre National de Lille, the NDR radio orchestra Hanover, and the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España.

Andreas Spering has made three complete opera recordings: Handel’s Siroe and Imeneo and the first ever recording of Reichardt’s Erwin and Elmire. In 2005 Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, performed on period instruments (Naxos), received critical acclaim internationally. There is also a prizewinning recording of early Haydn cantatas.  Haydn’s seldom performed oratorio Il ritorno de Tobia (Naxos) received the German Recording Award 2008. Both Brahms serenades (cpo) were released in 2008, and Haydn’s Applausus in 2010.

SEASON 2010/11