Friederike Scheunchen

Conductor Friederike Scheunchen has a broad repertoire: engagements with Ensemble Modern, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra (debut in 2026), Ensemble Musikfabrik, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, Trier Philharmonic Orchestra, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Recherche, SWR Vocal Ensemble, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, and many more. She has conducted at venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, Harvard (USA), and, with Matthew Herbert, at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg for the live soundtrack of a Bundesliga football match. She has been responsible for over 250 world premieres and works closely with numerous contemporary composers. She founded Ensemble Scope for interdisciplinary projects. From 2021 to 2023, she was a scholarship holder at the Akademie Musiktheater heute and, since 2021, at the Forum Dirigieren des Deutschen Musikrats, and since 2023 in its concert promotion programme.

In 2024, she was awarded the Reinhold Schneider Prize scholarship by the city of Freiburg. At the Freiburg University of Music, she heads the New Music Interpretation programme and the Contemporary Music Ensemble. She is currently engaged as a conductor and assistant to GMD André de Ridder at the Theater Freiburg, conducting, among other things, the opera PRISM (EA) by Ellen Reid, the world premiere of an opera by Johannes Schöllhorn, performances of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pique Dame’ and Handel’s ‘Alcina,’ and as a stand-in for Janáček’s ‘Jenufa.’