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Christiane Silber is a versatile conductor who has studied conducting with Jörg-Peter Weigle, Marek Janowski and Vladimir Jurowski.
She began her conducting career in 2010 with the concentus alius. In 2011 she became assistant and deputy to Prof. Constantin Alex (Humboldt University of Berlin). During this time she was the permanent conductor of Humboldt's Student Philharmonic Orchestra, Humboldt's Philharmonic Choir for one semester and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Humboldt-University of Berlin. She has also worked with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra and the German-Scandinavian Youth Orchestra. Christiane Silber has conducted the cappella academica of the Humboldt University of Berlin since 2014. From 2013 to 2016, she performed three concert tours in China with the newly founded Berlin Philharmonic Film Orchestra at the turn of the year. In 2016, she made her debut at the Staatstheater Schwerin with the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin. In 2018, she assisted conductor Ariane Matiakh at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg for the new production of Jules Massenet's Werther. She also conducted numerous concerts in 2018 and took over the musical direction of the CD production for Axel Prahl's new album “Mehr” with the Brandenburger Symphoniker. From 2018 to the present day, she has worked regularly with the female composers' collective Track15 and the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg. In 2019, Christiane Silber conducted the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin for the first time (RSB) - “her” orchestra, in which she has been principal viola since 2005. In the same year, she was engaged as assistant to Henrik Nanasi for the new production of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta at the Palau de les Artes in Valencia. She also made her debut with the Zug Sinfonietta, conducted recordings with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg and conducted the Sächsische Bläserphilharmonie. In 2020, the RSB engaged her again as a conductor, for an RBB radio live concert with Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta op. 1. She was also Vladimir Jurowski's assistant for the final concert of the season. In the 2022/23 season, Christiane Silber conducted a CD production for Deutschlandradio/Capriccio with premiere recordings of the composer Maria Herz with the RSB (reviewed as Album of the Week on Bayerischer Rundfunk in June 2024) and several recordings with the Babelsberg Film Orchestra. In 2023 she was engaged for the first time as assistant to Karina Canellakis with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and has already been invited for several follow-up projects in the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons. In March 2025, Christiane Silber will conduct a concert with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra in the Liederhalle Stuttgart, and in July 2025 she will make her debut with the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Christiane Silber has been a lecturer in conducting at the Babelsberg Film University since 2021 and a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 2022. |
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