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Golo Berg (born 1968) is a German conductor, the music director of theTheater Münster.
Born inWeimar in 1968, Berg studied with Gunter Kahlert at theHochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar from 1985 to 1991. He took master classes ofLorin Maazel,Luciano Berio,Michael Gielen,Lothar Zagrosek,Rudolf Barshai,Dmitri Kitajenko andFrans Brüggen. In 1990 he was a finalist of the Arturo Toscanini Competition inParma. He became chief conductor of theLandestheater Mecklenburg [de] at age 21, as one of the youngest chief conductors in the world. He was chief conductor of theHofer Symphoniker andGeneralmusikdirektor (GMD) at theTheater Hof from 1998 to 2001, He was then GMD at theAnhaltisches Theater until 2009, and GMD at theTheater Vorpommern from 2012 to 2017. In 2017 he became GMD at theTheater Münster with the 2017/18 season.[1]
Berg conducted several GErman orchestras including theSymphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, theRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, theMDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, theNDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover and dieHamburger Symphoniker. He conducted abroad in the UK, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland, in China with theShanghai Symphony Orchestra and in Japan with theTokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and theTokyo Symphony Orchestra.
As a conductor of opera, Berg worked as a guest at theLeipzig Opera,Cologne Opera,Nationaltheater Mannheim and theTheater St. Gallen. He collaborated in almost 100 productions with 30 stage directors, includingSebastian Baumgarten [de], Jonathan Eaton,Johannes Felsenstein [de], Nicholas Muni, Anthony Pilavachi andMichael Sturm [de]. He made several radio recordings with the Anhaltischen Philharmonie and recorded withcpo several CDs. He recorded a DVD of Wagner'sTristan und Isolde directed by Felsenstein in 2008. He has held regular master classes for young conductors forDeutscher Musikrat, working also as a member of their juries.
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