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Artem Lonhinov, born in Dnipro, Ukraine, began playing the violin at the age of four. After graduating with distinction from the Dnipro Music College as a violinist, composer, and conductor, he moved to Germany in 2014 to continue his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
Artem is currently working as a First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at Theater Freiburg. In the 2025/26 season, he will take on the musical direction of Verdi’s Rigoletto, Massenet’s Werther, the new production Europa, as well as a symphony concert and the New Year’s concert.
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[…]Artem Lonhinov, the theatre’s new 1st Kapellmeister, born in Ukraine in 1995, mastered the “Scottish” Symphony with elegance and sensitivity: those rapid shifts of mood so characteristic of the work, almost from one chord to the next—as if the composer were leafing through his sketchbook. The soft, dark tone, the elastic dynamics of the woodwinds—classical clarity and great expressive flexibility defined this interpretation of Mendelssohn. The pathos-free, perfectly balanced crescendos had brilliance, right up to the sea storm with its high swell.[…]
[…]A feast of orchestral colors![…]