Hendrik Vestmann

Hendrik Vestmann was born in Tartu (Estonia) and gained his musical education at the Estonian Academy for Music in Tallinn as well as under Wolf-Dieter Hauschild at the Conservertoire for Musik in Karlsruhe (Germany). 2006 Vestmann won the Hermann-Abendroth prize in Weimar and was a finalist and prize-winner in the German Conductors‘ Award, held at the Berlin Philharmonic.

Vestmanns operatic career began at Heidelberg Opera House, where he made his debut with Rossini‘s ,La Cenerentola‘.

2004 - 2006 saw him as the Musical Director of Tartu Opera House and subsequently as the First Kappellmeister and Deputy Musical Director of Münster Opera House.

From 2013 - 2016 Vestmann was the Chief Musical Director of the Opera House in Bonn.

Since 2016, Vestmann has been the General Music Director of the Oldenburg State Theatre where he has lead his first Wagnerian Ring cycle. As a guest conductor Hendrik Vestmann has conducted at various opera houses, including Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Staatstheater Hannover, Opera St. Gallen (Switzerland) and in Austria at Graz Opera House. 

Furthermore, he is a regular guest in several productions at the Komische Oper Berlin, with whom he travelled to China, South Korea, Macau, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand to conduct their production of ,The Magic Flute‘. West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra invited him back to conduct several symphonic concerts.

In May 2022 Hendrik Vestmann gave his Debut at Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile with Mozart`s Requiem. In Season 2023/24 he gave his Deput at Deutsche Oper am Rhein with Pucciniˋs Turandot and in The Royal Danish Opera with Mozartˋs The Magic Flute.