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Reinhard Seehafer is the founder and Music director of the Europa Philharmonie.
Reinhard Seehafer was born in Magdeburg, Germany, studied conducting, composing and piano in Berlin and Weimar with Kurt Masur and Rolf Reuter and qualified as a conductor with Leonard Bernstein and Otmar Suitner. Even as student he was awarded with the Felix-Mendessohn-Bartholdy prize in 1980. In 1982 he created a sensation with Giacomo Puccini's „Madame Butterfly“ at the Komische Oper Berlin, and was immediately engaged there. He worked with directors and choreographers such as Harry Kupfer, Joachim Herz and Tom Schilling.
In 1989 he became principal conductor and Artistic director of the opera house of Görlitz. In 1991, together with the director of the opera house Görlitz ,Wolf-Dieter Ludwig, Reinhard Seehafer co-founded the cross-cultural project EUROPERA where he was musical director and principal conductor until 1998.
In the same year he founded the Europa Philharmonie, where he is the Music director to this day. |