About Me

He has worked extensively with German orchestras and opera houses, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, SWR Symphonieorchester, MDR Sinfonie-Orchester, WDR-Funkhausorchester, Bremer Philharmoniker, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatstheater Hannover, Theater Bonn, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Aalto-Theater Essen and the Nationaltheater Mannheim. Internationally he has collaborated on return engagements with the Zagreb Philharmonic, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in the summer of 2011, conducting Salvatore Sciarrino’s opera Macbeth with the Klangforum Wien. In 2018, he conducted the closing concert of the Ultraschall Berlin: Festival for New Music.

Evan-Alexis Christ was Music Director of the Brandenburg State Opera in Cottbus from 2008 to 2018, making him at the time one of the youngest music directors in Germany. The orchestra made several recordings and undertook international tours for the first time in their 100-year history. In 2011 the orchestra won the publishers prize (Boosey and Hawkes, Peters, Breitkopf, etc.) for the best concert program of all German orchestras. In 2010 the citizens of the city of Cottbus voted Christ “Cottbuser of the Year.” In the regular subscription series, audience attendance rose from 70 to 95 percent capacity. From 2009 to 2018, the orchestra premiered a new work in every subscription concert and collaborated regularly with the contemporary music ensembles Court-circuit (Paris) and ensemble mosaik (Berlin). The high quality of the orchestra’s artistic work was recognized and supported by numerous generous grants (Ernst-von-Siemens Foundation, Berlin Academy of the Arts, German “Excellent Orchestra Landscape” National Foundation and Impuls Neue Musik).