Prof. Sebastian Tewinkel

Sebastian Tewinkel, who is originally from Unna in Westphalia, first studied school music in Hanover and then conducting with Thomas Ungar at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts. After completing his studies, Tewinkel won two important competitions: in 2000, he received the first (and only) prize at the International Conducting Competition of the Fundação Oriente Foundation in Lisbon, and in 2001, he won the Bad Homburg Conducting Prize.

Sebastian Tewinkel has appeared as a guest conductor for concerts, CD and radio productions with numerous orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hannover and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart.

Abroad, Sebastian Tewinkel has conducted the Orquestra Metropolitana Lisbon, the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He has also been repeatedly invited to conduct the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, the Hamamatsu Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orquestra Ciudad de Granada.

In the field of music theatre, Tewinkel has conducted Mozart's ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, ‘The Magic Flute’ in Würzburg, a new production of Henry Purcell's ‘The Fairy Queen’ at the Landestheater in Bregenz, and Wagner's ‘Tannhäuser’ at the Theater Hagen.

From 2002 to 2013, Sebastian Tewinkel was principal conductor of the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim and from 2009 to 2015 of the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Graubünden in Chur.

Since the 2010/11 winter semester, he has also been professor of orchestral conducting at the Trossingen University of Music.

In 2012, he received the Echo Klassik award for the Sony Classical production of cello concertos by Dvorak and Saint-Saens with Maximilian Hornung and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. His most recent notable debuts include the National Theatre Orchestra Mannheim, the SWR Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Filharmónica de Bogotá.

He is also committed to promoting young artists and has been principal conductor of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Youth Orchestra since 2018.

From 2015 to 2023, Sebastian Tewinkel was general music director and principal conductor of the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Since September 2019, he has been artistic director of the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra Bad Brückenau.

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