Sebastian Gottschick was born in Düsseldorf in 1959 and is a conductor, composer, violinist and viola player. He studied conducting, composition and violin in Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg and at the Juilliard School in New York and in his work brings together early music, contemporary music and music theatre. In 1989 he joined the Ensemble Oriol Berlin as concertmaster and directed it artistically from 1993 to 1999; from 1994 to 2003 he was musical director of the Neue Opernbühne Berlin, where he conducted Händel’s “Flavio” in 2000. Guest engagements took him to the Theater Basel and the Berliner Kammeroper; he has conducted the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, the Sinfonieorchester Basel and the Ensemble Modern, among others. For Dacapo Records he recorded works by Matthias Ronnefeld. He also appears as a violinist in chamber music and as a soloist. He is the conductor on the Cybele album Rolf Riehm: Orchestral Works (2005).
Sebastian Gottschick
Conductor / Composer / Violin / Viola
