Walter Nußbaum

Walter Nußbaum studied church music and conducting, was cantor in Heidelberg until 1992, and then Professor for Choral Conducting and conducting at the Hanover University of Music and Theatre until 2015.

In 1992, he founded the SCHOLA HEIDELBERG and the ensemble aisthesis. His repertoire as a conductor spans from early vocal music to contemporary vocal and instrumental
works. He has worked closely with composers such as Dániel Péter Biró, Heinz Holliger, Helmut Lachenmann, Bernhard Lang, Caspar Johannes Walter, Hans Zender, Johannes Kalitzke, Carola Bauckholt, Rebecca Saunders, Georg Friedrich Haas, Peter Eötvös, Salvatore Sciarrino, and others, and discovered the compositional oeuvre of René Leibowitz (double CD).

He has conducted numerous world premieres, music theatre productions (Bregenz Festival, National Theatre Mannheim, Schwetzingen Festival) and collaborations (including Nono’s Prometeo, Salzburg Festival), conducting at the Venice Biennale, Lucerne Festival, Salzburg Biennale, Steirischer Herbst, Milano Musica, Musica viva Munich, Ultraschall Berlin, Witten Days for New Chamber Music, Schwetzingen Festival, Tongyeong Festival and many more National and international CD awards: Diapason d’or, German Record Critics’ Award, among others.

Photography: Thilo Ross