Born in Gelsenkirchen in 1973; Rasmus Baumann studied piano and conducting at the Musikhochschule Detmold. Already during his studies he worked as an organist, chorus master and jazz pianist and wrote piano reductions for the Bärenreiter-Verlag. He was first Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Mainz and from 2008 principal conductor of the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen; in 2009, as a scholarship holder of the Dirigentenforum, he received a special prize at the Deutscher Dirigentenpreis in Berlin. From 2014 to 2024 he was principal conductor of the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, and since the 2024/25 season he has been principal conductor of the Niedersächsisches Landesorchester Hannover. Since 2019 he has directed a conducting class at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. He commissioned from Daniel Binelli a tango double concerto for bandoneon, cello and orchestra, which he gave its first performance in 2015 with the composer and the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen. For hd-klassik he conducted the album Astor Piazzolla: Tango Nuevo – A Symphonic Homage in 2021.
Rasmus Baumann
Conductor
