Prof. Dr. Knut Andreas

Summer Semester 2022

• Music and Film – The Qatsi Trilogy (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Winter Semester 2021/22

• African-American Music (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Summer Semester 2021

• Music.Power.Politics (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Winter Semester 2020/21

• Nature in Music – Music in Nature (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Winter Semester 2019/20

• Dmitri Shostakovich - music-historical, biographical and orchestra-practical (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Summer Semester 2019

• Form, Style, Epoch? – Introduction to the Music of the 20th Century (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Winter semester 2018/19

• Potsdam and the Western Group of the Soviet Army (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, together with Prof. Dr. Helene Kleine) Summer Semester 2018
• Introduction to Film Music (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Music of the November Group

Winter semester 2017/18

• Nature in Music (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Summer Semester 2017

• Orchestra's World (Seminar in English, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Minimal Music and Steve Reich (Lecture in English, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
• Canções Orquestrais de Gustav Mahler e Richard Strauss (lecture in Portuguese, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
• Debate: Gestos na Regência (course in Portuguese, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)

Winter semester 2016/17

• Music and Language (Lecture and Seminar, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Master Class Conducting (Course in Portuguese, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)

Summer semester 2016

• Music in Totalitarian Systems (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Discover Cultures (Seminar in English, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Winter semester 2015/16

• Death in Music (Seminar in English, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Between Sound Painting and Tone Poem (InterFlex-Semina, together with Prof. Dr.Peter Stephan, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Summer semester 2015

• Orchestra Management (Seminar in English, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Structures, Motifs and Affects in Music and Architecture between 1500 and 1700 (InterFlex-Seminar together with Prof. Dr. Peter Stephan, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Master Class in Conducting (course in Portuguese, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
• Minimal Music (lecture in Portuguese, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)

Winter semester 2014/15

• Methods in Cultural Education II (Seminar in English, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Film Music (Seminar, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Música que toca II: Impulsos e propostas de métodos na Educação Musical – Teatro Musical (Seminar in Portuguese, Universidade Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil)
• Masterclass Conducting (Course in Portuguese, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)

Summer Semester 2014

• Methods in Cultural Education I (seminar in English, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Of Outrageous Harmonies, False Basses and Affects (Seminar, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Música que toca I: Impulsos e propostas de métodos na Educação Musical (Seminar in Portuguese, Universidade Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil)
• Pavement in Paris: George Gershwin's 'An American in Paris' (Workshop in English, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Leonard Bernstein: The Art of Conducting (Lecture, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität Munich, together with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rathert)

Winter Semester 2013/14

• Electroacoustic Music (seminar in English, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Cultural Education at the Interface between Schools and Cultural Institutions (Seminar, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Brazilian Trumpet II (Workshop with Paulo Ronqui, Brazil, Brandenburg State Association of Music and Art Schools)

Summer Semester 2013

• Form, Style, Epoch? – Music in the 20th Century (Seminar,  University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Impacts of Social Life in Brazilian Popular Music (workshop with Prof. Dr. Liana Brito and Katia Fonsaca (Brazil) in English/Portuguese, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• My kind of town – American music (culture) using the example of Chicago (guest lecture, course in architecture and urban planning, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Winter semester 2012/13

• Cultural Education (Seminar, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• Brazilian Trumpet I (Workshop with Paulo Ronqui, Brazil, Brandenburg State Association of Music and Art Schools)

Summer Semester 2012

• Oceans of Sounds – Oceans of Ideas (Seminar in English, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

Winter semester 2011/12

• Orchestra Management (Seminar, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)

In his work as a conductor and musicologist, Knut Andreas combines theory with practice in many areas, always with the aim of inspiring a wide audience with and for music.

After his musical training on the violin, viola, piano and bassoon, and following his studies in music education and German language and literature at the University of Potsdam, he continued his education at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig. After completing his studies, he accepted a position as personal advisor and assistant to the general music director of the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra. In Neubrandenburg, he co-founded the international youth orchestra meeting NBJot "Baltikum" in 2004, which he accompanied as manager until 2008.

His interest in musicology, especially the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, led Knut Andreas to the Institute for Musicology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the life and work of the composer Paul Graener. He acted as manager for the transatlantic music conference "crosscurrents: American and European Music in Inter­action, 1900-2000", organised by the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in cooperation with Harvard University and the Paul Sacher Foundation Basel, the second part of which took place in Munich in May 2009 with guests such as Paul Hillier, Bruce Brubaker and Steve Reich. In Munich he also directed the choir and orchestra of the Institute for Musicology.

Since 1998, Knut Andreas has been the artistic director of the Collegium musicum Potsdam symphony orchestra. With the orchestra, he not only initiated public dress rehearsals with introductions to works that precede the symphony concerts and in which he familiarises the audience more closely with the works to be heard, but in the summer of 2009 he also launched the open-air festival "Klassik am Weberplatz", which has since gathered around 2,000 listeners outdoors every year. Since 2012, the orchestra's intercultural exchange, which brings together artists from both countries under the title "Brandenburg-Brasilien", has attracted international attention.

In his orchestral work, Knut Andreas also focuses on the musical education of children and young people, as well as in the area of social welfare with the "Sinfonieorchester für Senioren" series, which was launched in spring 2014 and once again enables older people in need of care to experience a symphony orchestra live.

As a conductor, Knut Andreas has made guest appearances in the Netherlands, with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Slovenia and with various orchestras in Brazil, including the Orquestra de Câmara OPUS, the Orquestra Sinfônica de Nova Lima and the Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Campinas. As a regular guest conductor, he works with the Orquestra Sinfônica da UNICAMP (Campinas) and the Orquestra Sinfónica de Ribeirão Preto. In October 2016 he recorded a CD of contemporary trumpet concertos by Brandenburg and Brazilian composers with the Brazilian trumpeter Paulo Ronqui in Campinas.

In 2015, Knut Andreas received a scholarship from the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg (InterStip) to realise a socio-cultural orchestra project with children and young people from socially vulnerable backgrounds in a district of the metropolis of São Paulo.

In July 2012, the Brazilian Academy of Literature and Art "Paranapuã" (Rio de Janeiro) honoured Knut Andreas with the Order of Cultural Merit, recognising his achievements in connecting Brazilian and German artists as well as his commitment to making Brazilian music known in Germany. In the same year, the state capital Potsdam honoured the work of the Collegium musicum Potsdam symphony orchestra with the Honorary Service Award for Cultural Commitment.

As an author, Knut Andreas has worked with the Audite and CPO CD labels for several years. In August 2014, the conductor took over the direction of the Youth Symphony Orchestra Berlin, based at the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium, with whose chamber orchestra he won the 1st Michelangelo International Music Festival Firenze (Italy) in spring 2017. Between 2011 and 2017, he taught as a lecturer in the Cultural Work degree programme at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. In June 2017, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Music History and Music Management in the Cultural Work programme by the President of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

• Knut Andreas (2017): Trumpet concertos by Brazilian and Brandenburg composers (CD forthcoming, UNICAMP).
• Knut Andreas (2016): German-Brazilian Choir and Orchestra Encounter, in: Tópicos 03/2016.
• Knut Andreas (2015): Graener – Chevillard – Marx in: Rarities of Piano Music, Festival Programme, Husum.
• Knut Andeas (2015): Paul Graener: Orchestral Works & Concerto for Piano. Georgsmarienhütte: cpo.
• Knut Andreas (2014): Ganz nur auf Musik gestellt - Paul Graener's operas. Berlin: Operalounge.
• Knut Andreas (2014): Ohne Barrieren – Erlebnis Sinfonieorchester für Senioren, in: Das Liebhaberorchester, Dresden.
• Knut Andreas (2014): Von Schülern, die auszogen, die Künste zu erlernen. Potsdam: University of Applied Sciences. (Ed. with L. Lützkendorf).
• Knut Andreas (2013): Carl Philipp Stamitz: Quartets for Clarinet. Detmold: Audite.
• Knut Andreas (2013): Paul Graener: Orchestral Works Vol. II. Georgsmarienhütte: cpo.
• Knut Andreas (2012): Music for Clarinet & Piano (Schumann, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Poulenc, Arnold). Detmold: Audite.
• Knut Andreas (2012): Paul Graener: Orchestral Works Vol. I. Georgsmarienhütte: cpo.
• Knut Andreas (2011): French Music for Horn & Piano (Saint-Saëns, Damase, Defaye, Poulenc, Dukas). Detmold: Audite.
• Knut Andreas (2011): Paul Graener: Complete Piano Trios. Georgsmarienhütte: cpo.
• Knut Andreas (2011): Eliana Printes and Symphony Orchestra Collegium musicum Potsdam. CD.
• Knut Andreas (2010): Paul Graener: Works for Orchestra (The Flute of Sanssouci, Vienna Symphony, Tower Guard Song, Flute Concerto). Stockholm: Sterling.
• Knut Andreas (2009): Crosscurrents – American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000. programme book for the conference, Munich LMU [with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rathert].
• Knut Andreas (2008): Zwischen Musik und Politik: Der Komponist Paul Graener (1872-1944), Frank&Timme Verlag Berlin.
• Knut Andreas (2002 - 2003): Collaboration on the publication of the string quartets of the American composer George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) by Marianne Betz, University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig.
• Knut Andreas (2002): Paul Graener. In: Music in History and the Present. General Encyclopaedia of Music, founded by F. Blume. 2nd revised edition, ed. L. Finscher, Personenteil Bd. 7, Kassel/Stuttgart 2002, Sp. 1455-1457.