Conductor and violist Christoph Vandory, winner of the Young Artist Award of his home state Bavaria, is considered one of the most promising and interesting young German musicians.
As a founding member of the Goldmund Quartet, Christoph has had a successful musical career since 2010 and regularly performs at renowned venues and festivals including the Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Berlin Boulez Saal and Vienna Musikverein, Festival de Aix en Provence, Muiskfestival Rheingau and Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival.
In 2017 Christoph decided to follow a deep fascination for orchestral music and, alongside his ongoing activities with the Goldmund Quartet, enrolled on the conducting programme of the Musikhochschule München. Studying with Marcus Bosch, Georg Fritzsch and Alexander Liebreich, he has also received musical guidance from figures such as Kent Nagano, Christoph Poppen, Jorma Panula, Julia Fischer, Jörg Widmann and Herbert Blomstedt. 2019 Christoph was scholar of the Järvi Conducting Academy, where had the honour to work with Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Christian Järvi und Leonid Grin.
Since 2018 Christoph has conducted orchestras such as the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra Südwestfalen, Philharmonic Orchestra Jena and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Throughout this season he will conduct the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and others.
In the 2019 / 20 season Christoph and the Goldmund Quartett
have been appointed ECHO Rising Stars, which included a concert tour throughout Europes most important concert halls.
Christoph plays an incredibly rare viola made by Antonius Stradivarius, the “Paganini-Mendelssohn” from 1731. It is part of the “Paganini Quartet”, generously loaned to the Goldmund Quartett by the Nippon Music Foundation.
Since 2011 Christoph is a fellow of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation and in 2015 was awarded the scholarship of the German Music Competition. In 2018 Christoph and the Goldmund Quartet were the first prize and commissioned work prize winners at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. Further awards include the 2nd Prize at the International Wigmore Hall Competition 2018, the Karl-Klinger Prize at the 2016 ARD Competition in Munich and the 1st Prize at the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. Most recently the quartet was awarded the “Jürgen-Ponto-Musikpreis”.
