Golo Berg

Golo Berg (born 1968) is a German conductor, the music director of the Theater Münster.

Life and career Born in Weimar in 1968, Berg studied with Gunter Kahlert at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar from 1985 to 1991. He took master classes of Lorin Maazel, Luciano Berio, Michael Gielen, Lothar Zagrosek, Rudolf Barshai, Dmitri Kitajenko and Frans Brüggen. In 1990 he was a finalist of the Arturo Toscanini Competition in Parma. He became chief conductor of the at age 21, as one of the youngest chief conductors in the world. He was chief conductor of the Hofer Symphoniker and Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) at the Theater Hof from 1998 to 2001, He was then GMD at the Anhaltisches Theater until 2009, and GMD at the Theater Vorpommern from 2012 to 2017. In 2017 he became GMD at the Theater Münster with the 2017/18 season.