Burkhard Bauche

The Berlin-born Burkhard Bauche studied conducting, piano and correpetition from 1984 until 1988 at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin, where he has been teaching since 1988. At the same time, he began his first engagement as solo-repetiteur and choral assistant at the Berlin Comic Opera in 1988. Engagements as solo-repetiteur, music director and conductor followed in Frankfurt/Oder and Halberstadt. Alongside diverse conducting engagements, he also prepared ensembles for "Paganini", "Black Rider", "Der Vogelhändler" and "Das Wirtshaus in Spessart."

In the year 2000 Burkhard Bauche was engaged at the Braunschweig State Theatre as solo-repetiteur with conducting duties, at which institution he has been music director since December 2004. Here he has so far directed performances of Michael Nyman's opera "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", "The Nutcracker" and Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet". Moreover, he conducted "My Fair Lady" and "West Side Story," amongst other works. He was also music director of the Midsummer Night's Dream ballet (music: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)