Maria Biesu
Andreas Schein


Born in Timișoara in 1997, a graduate of the master's program in Conducting from the Faculty of Music and Theatre in Timișoara, Andreas Schein began his training in the art of conducting in 2014 under the guidance of Maestro David Crescenzi. Starting in the autumn of that year, he pursued a second master's cycle in Orchestral Conducting in the class of Assoc. Prof. Dr. David Crescenzi at the "Gheorghe Dima" National Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca. He currently holds the title of Doctor in Music, with the distinction Summa cum laude, following the defense of his doctoral thesis entitled "The Opera and Operetta Creation of German Composers from Banat in the Period 1850–1950".

His conducting debut took place at the podium of the "Cammerata Ulm" orchestra in Germany. Since 2023, he has collaborated as the principal conductor of the annual Musikwoche Löwenstein project in Germany. In October 2023, he took the podium at the Romanian National Opera in Timișoara, conducting the absolute premiere of the operetta Grüsst mein Banat! by Emmerich Bartzer. He has also collaborated with the philharmonic orchestras of Arad and Satu-Mare, as well as with other orchestras both in Romania and abroad.

Currently, Andreas Schein serves as the principal conductor of the "Nae Leonard" National Theater of Opera and Operetta in Galați, where he has conducted a series of lyric titles such as La Bohème, The Land of Smiles, Die Fledermaus, Don Pasquale, and The Gypsy Baron, as well as numerous symphonic concerts, opera, and operetta galas.

In June 2025, alongside Maestro Gheorghe Victor Dumănescu, he staged the premiere of Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor, which he also conducted at the Bucharest National Opera during the Bucharest Opera Festival 2025. In the autumn of the same year, he directed the premiere of W. A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. He also participated in the Sibiu Opera Festival 2025, conducting G. Donizetti's Don Pasquale. In December 2025, he performed as a guest conductor for G. Puccini's La Bohème at the Romanian National Opera in Cluj-Napoca.

In March 2026, he embarked on a tour of Spain with the "Maria Bieșu" National Opera and Ballet Theater from Chișinău, conducting 8 performances of the operas Norma by V. Bellini, La Traviata by G. Verdi, and The Elixir of Love by G. Donizetti.

In academia, Andreas Schein works as a university assistant and conductor of the Opera Class at the Faculty of Arts of the "Dunărea de Jos" University in Galați.

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