Peter Aderhold (born 1966) is a German composer and conductor.

Life and career

Born in Berlin, Aderhold studied conducting (with

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, Olaf Koch,

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) and composition (

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) at the

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from 1982 to 1988. In 1988, he passed his

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in composition with the ballet music ''Diana;'' this he

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d as conductor on the occasion of the GDR Music Days in Berlin in 1990 with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra; it was broadcast several times on radio and television. From 1988 to 1993, he was conductor at the

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, then in 1994/95, he moved to the

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as conductor. Since 1991, he has been chief conductor of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Youth Orchestra (among others first prize in the 1997 "Youth and Music in Vienna" competition). From 1995 to July 2000, he was first ''

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'' and deputy general

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at the

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. Since August 2000, he has been living in Berlin as a freelance composer and conductor. He has been responsible for the musical direction of several productions (among others ''

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'' by Philip Glass and ''Bremer Freiheit'' by

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) at the Berliner Kammeroper. He has also worked as a guest conductor with the

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, Dresden Philharmonic,

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, Schwerin Philharmonic and the Hall Philharmonic. Since 2003 he has led the . Aderhold wrote symphonic works as well as the chamber opera ''Odysseus and the Stranger'' for the

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(2001) and the opera '' Luther'' on the occasion of the reopening of the

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. He performed his composition ''Fanfare for Orchestra'' with the Akademisches Orchester Berlin in 2008 on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. In 2011, he wrote ''Meditation - Concerto for Alphorn and Orchestra'' for the same orchestra. His ''Concerto for one Player with two Saxophones and Orchestra'', written for

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, was premiered on 12 February 2012 in Frankfurt by the latter and the

conducted by

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. Aderhold was a visiting professor at the

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from 2011 to 2012. (compositional technique, instrumentation and conducting in the film music course) and is a

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at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin (instrumentation, composition, ear training). On 22 April 2016, his second opera ''Orlando'' based on the eponymous novel by

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was premiered at the

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and won the Opera Prize Braunschweig in 2014.

Prizes and awards

For his ballet music ''Diana'', he received the ''Prize of Criticism'' of the Music Criticism Commission of the at the 1990 GDR Music Days.''Prize of Criticism''. In ''

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'', 6 March 1990, Jg. 46, issue 55, .

References

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Besprechung der Oper ''Luther''
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