Biography

Since January 2020, following a long-time and very fruitful collaboration, Philipp Ahmann is Chief Conductor of Leipzig's MDR Radio Choir. 

From 2008 to 2018, he was chief conductor of the NDR Radio Choir in Hamburg and, in addition, led prestigious orchestras specialising on “early music” and ensembles for “New Music”, including the AKAMUS Berlin, B’Rock, Bell’arte Salzburg, Concerto con Anima, Concerto Cologne, Le Concert Lorrain, and the Elbipolis Barock Orchestra Hamburg, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, Ensemble Resonanz, Fabergé-Quintett, Gürzenich-Orchester Cologne, MDR-Sinfonieorchester and NDR Radiophilharmonie, as well as the RIAS Kammerchor, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Dutch Radio Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor and SWR Vokalensemble. Productions with the Bigband “Spielvereinigung Sued”, NDR Bigband and the NDR Brass bear witness to the conductor’s versatility.

Philipp Ahmann has been acclaimed especially for his interpretation of oratorio works ranging from Baroque to contemporary. His vast repertoire encompasses besides numerous works by Bach, Handel, and Telemann as well as works of the French, Italian and Salzburg Baroque, the key works of the Viennese Classic and the romantic period, such as Haydn’s The Seasons, Mendelssohn’s Paulus and Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem as well as Berlioz’ L’enfance du Christ, and, furthermore, works of the modern era.
Handel and Mozart in particular are the “connection points” between the concert and the opera stage, thus he already conducted Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte. In August 2019, Philipp Ahmann made his successful debut at the Ópera Nacional de Chile in Santiago with a staged production of Handel's Rodelinda.

He has been a guest at renowned festivals such as Rheingau Music Festival, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the International Handel Festivals in Göttingen and Halle.

Numerous CDs recorded with the MDR Radio Choir and the NDR Choir gained enthusiastic critical acclaim and were repeatedly nominated for the OPUS-Klassik award.

Born in 1974, Philipp Ahmann studied conducting with Marcus Creed in Cologne and gained further artistic impulses by Frieder Bernius, Peter Neumann and Robin Gritton, as well as due to collaborations with  renowned conductors, such as Gerd Albrecht, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph von Dohnányi, Peter Eötvös, Christoph Eschenbach, Thomas Hengelbrock, Heinz Holliger, Marek Janowski, Wladimir Jurowski, Andrew Manze, Kent Nagano, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Christian Thielemann, and Lothar Zagrosek.

Artist Website

www.philippahmann.de 

Management

General Management

Artist Manager
 
 
 
 
Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20

 
 
 
 
Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-173-2 067 821

News

Change to the WDR Rundfunkchor
We are delighted to announce that Philipp Ahmann, currently Chief Conductor of the MDR Radio Choir, will take over the same position at the WDR Radio choir at the beginning of the 2025/26 season!
Ahmann recently celebrated successes at the Halle Handel Festival with Handel's Athalia and at the MDR Musiksommer with works by Mozart, Haydn and Schubert.
In addition, with his cross-genre production ‘A KIND OF ... CHORAL MUSIC’ he won the German Jazz Award 2024 in the category Best Radio Production.
Winner of the German Jazz Prize 2024
Congratulations to Philipp Ahmann, who won the German Jazz Award in the category Best Radio Production with his production A KIND OF ... CHORAL MUSIC! The three jazz composers Theresia Philipp, Florian Ross and Andreas Theobald were engaged to compose pieces for the ensemble for the cross-genre project, which was the result of a co-operation between the MDR Rundfunkchor and the Leipziger Jazztage. The newly composed concert programme of choral music with jazz influences picks up on the jazz festival's motto ‘Make the connection’ in an unprecedented way and creates a unique transition between jazz and classical music.  
The award ceremony took place on 18.04.2024 in Cologne.

Further information can be found here:
www.deutscherjazzpreis.de
www.mdrklassik.de
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