Uwe Sochaczewsky

Uwe Sochaczewsky was born in Berlin, where he studied school music, the oboe and conducting.
From 2000 to 2004, he was second conductor and director of studies at the Harztheater. From 2004 to 2011, he worked as a conductor and coach at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden

He was involved in rehearsals and worked as an assistant at the Bavarian State Opera, the MusikFabrik in Cologne and the Schwetzingen Festival, including on world premieres of operas by Georg Friedrich Haas and Hector Parra.
As a guest conductor, he has appeared on several occasions at the international opera festival of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and at the Cologne Opera, amongst others.

In recent years, he has made a name for himself as an arranger of operas for children: in 2012, he arranged Jacques Offenbach’s »Orpheus in the Underworld« for the Cologne Children’s Opera, and in 2015, Rossini’s »The Barber of Seville« for the Salzburg Festival.
In 2019, he conducted his arrangement of Prokofiev’s »The Love for Three Oranges« for the Berlin Children’s Opera at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, and returned there in 2021 and 2023 with his adaptation of Wagner’s »Lohengrin«.

Since completing his studies, he has enjoyed working with youth and student orchestras, including the North Rhine-Westphalia State Youth Orchestra, the Junge Sinfonie Berlin and the Blutenburg Chamber Philharmonic. In 2017, he took over as musical director of the Munich International Orchestra (MiO).
Since 2011, he has been a lecturer in music theory and director of the symphony orchestra at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.