Andreas Peer Kähler
Conductor and idea leader

...studied conducting and composition at the Berlin University of Arts (UdK Berlin) and as a DAAD scholarship holder in Sweden and Finland with Jorma Panula and Eric Ericsson. His encounter with Sergiu Celibidache whose courses on conducting and lectures on musical phenomenology he attended greatly influenced his artistic career. Since his time as a student, Andreas Peer Kähler has been pursuing extensive self-employed activities as a conductor, composer, concert presenter and music teacher.

In 1980 he founded the "Deutsch-Skandinavische Jugend-Philharmonie", whose artistic director he has been to this day and in whose concerts he introduced a great number of major works of the Nordic orchestra repertoire, numerous world and German premieres among them. Most notably, he developed a considerable repertoire in the area of concerts for children, juveniles and families together with the "Kammerorchester Unter den Linden" (Unter den Linden Chamber Orchestra) which was founded in 1990 and he created two series of family concerts, i.e. "Tiere, Tango und Trompeten" (animals, Tango and trumpets, performed in the Chamber Music Hall at the Berliner Philharmonie) and "Familienkonzerte in Dahlem" (family concerts in Berlin-Dahlem). Guest performances took him to Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, Poland, Lithuania, Switzerland and Iceland, Mexico and Australia. Another focus of his work is the music by Arvo Pärt, with whom he has been connected throughout many years of cooperation and friendship.

In the field of teaching music, Andreas Peer Kähler works for Deutsche Oper Berlin as a freelancer in connection with the "Klassik is´ cool!" (classical music is cool) youth programme and as a narrator and actor in numerous children’s programmes created by him. The extremely popular concerts with explanations and background information by the conductor have also been created and presented by him.