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Dr. Alexandros Diamantis
Conductor
The conductor Dr. Alexandros Diamantis has worked at several prestigious German theatres, including the Theater des Westens, Stadttheater Pforzheim, Deutsches Theater München and Theater Altenburg-Gera. He has also performed in major cities such as Munich, Cologne, Berlin, Stuttgart and Leipzig.
His career in Germany began as a conductor of the ensembles of the Bavarian Philharmonic, with which he embarked on a successful tour through nine cities in South Korea in 2010. He received his initial musical training at the National Conservatory in Athens, Greece, where he studied piano and music theory. He earned his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Athens, with his dissertation The Ancient Greek Tragedy in Western Opera during the Neoclassical Period in the Interwar Years. He studied orchestral conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with a scholarship of the Athens Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Currently, he is a conductor at the Theater Altenburg-Gera and has guest-conducted the Orchestra of the University of Athens, Asonietta and the Youth Symphony Orchestra and the University Choir of Athens. His previous engagements include the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Jalas Chamber Orchestra in Finland, the State Orchestra of Athens, the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic, the Munich University Orchestra, the Paxoi Festival Orchestra, the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, the Baden Philharmonic Pforzheim, the Philharmonic Orchestra Altenburg-Gera and the Ensemble Oktopus for Contemporary Music. In 2010, he was awarded the Richard Wagner Scholarship and has given musicological lectures in German-speaking countries since 2014 with a focus on Richard Wagner and Ancient Greece.
