„Fabian Enders and the Vienna Radio Symphonie Orchestra succeed in creating an atmospherically dense interpretation, noticeably committed and extremely exciting, with outstanding playing technique.“ (Remy Franck, pizzicato.lu, 02.05.2025)

Fabian Enders is Artistic Director of the German Philharmonic Academy Orchestra and the Saxon Chamber Choir. He made his debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2025 and will perform there again in 2026. The conductor’s current CD releases include the world premiere recording of Günter Raphael’s 1st Symphony in A minor Opus 16 (1926), which he recorded together with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the concert recording (Deutschlandfunk Kultur) of the incidental music to Goethe’s ‘Egmont’ by Ludwig van Beethoven with the Filharmonie Brno.
Enders is currently working with orchestras such as the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Filharmonia Sudecka, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Vocalconsort Berlin. In 2023, he was nominated as ‘Conductor of the Year’ for the OPUS KLASSIK (Beethoven: ‘Die Weihe des Hauses’).
In the field of historically informed performance practice, Enders has worked with ensembles such as the Lautten Compagney Berlin, the RIAS Chamber Choir, the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra, the Bach Orchestra Mainz and the Vocal Consort Berlin and has made recordings of works by W. A. Mozart and W. F. Bach with historical instruments.
He was recently awarded 1st Prize (Conducting) at the World Grand Prix International Music Contest, 1st Prize at the Bach International Music Competition and 1st Prize at the Beethoven International Music Competition.
He received the Gold Prize (Composition) at the European Musical Award 2023.
In 2022, he won the Bucharest International Conducting Competition and conducted the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra Simfonica Bucuresti) in a gala concert. Enders was awarded 3rd prize and will return to Romania next season to work with the Bacău State Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2021, he was nominated for the first time in the ‘Conductor of the Year’ category for the OPUS KLASSIK. A production by the Saxon Soloists‘ Association under his direction was also nominated for “Choral Recording of the Year”. In concerts with the Sturm und Drang Orchestra (OSD), he dedicates himself to the repertoire of the Empfindsame Stil. He was appointed music director in April 2021.
His compositional works are published by Hofmeister Musikverlag Leipzig.
In 2018, Deutschlandfunk Kultur dedicated an evening to the young interpreter and presented him as a conductor of music by Richard Wagner and Gustav Schreck. Enders has worked regularly with the RIAS Kammerchor since 2017. He has conducted concerts with the Rundfunkchor Berlin, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, the Leipziger Symphonieorchester, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, the Gächinger Kantorei, the Bachcollegium Stuttgart, the Kammerphilharmonie Odessa, the Monteverdichor Hamburg a.o.
He already conducted the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra during his studies.
He has worked as an assistant and studied with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle (Berliner Philharmoniker), Peter Schreier (Dresdner Kapellsolisten), Iván Fischer (Budapest Festival Orchestra), Robin Ticciati (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin), Yutaka Sado (Tonkünstler-Orchester Österreich), Giovanni Antonini (Il Giardino Armonico), René Jacobs, Gottfried von der Goltz (Freiburger Barockorchester) and Helmuth Rilling in Berlin, Vienna, Dresden and Salzburg.
CD recordings by the conductor, including with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Cottbus State Theatre, have been released by Rondeau Productions, querstand and harmonia mundi. Concert recordings and productions have been broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Österreich 1 (Ö 1), Kulturradio vom rbb, SWR 2 and other radio stations.
Enders has conducted at the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Mendelssohn Festival, the MDR Music Summer and the Salzburg Mozart Week and has performed at the Erzgebirge Music Festival and the Schumanniade.
The Leipzig premiere of Poulenc’s ‘Les mammelles de Tirésias’ under his direction attracted particular attention, as did his concerts in Leipzig’s St Thomas Church: the interpretation of Bach’s Passions and Mendelssohn’s oratorios ‘Elijah’ and ‘Paulus’ as well as the highly acclaimed rediscovery and world premiere recording of Gustav Schreck’s late Romantic oratorio ‘Christus, der Auferstandene’ (2016-2018). The co-production by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Rondeau Production was nominated for the OPUS KLASSIK in 2019. He realised Steffen Schleiermacher’s scenes for solo, choir and orchestra ‘Ich, Thomas Müntzer, Knecht Gottes’ with the Altenburg-Gera Philharmonic Orchestra as a highly acclaimed world premiere. After graduating from the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium in Berlin (2006), he studied orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ Leipzig (with Christian Kluttig and others) and graduated with a diploma in music theatre and concert conducting with very good results. He also completed a diploma in choral conducting. He also successfully completed a Master’s degree in Church Music or A (organ with KMD Matthias Jacob and Prof. Wolfgang Kupke) at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle.
At the International Mendelssohn Academy and the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, he completed his studies in orchestral conducting (master student of Kurt Masur and Peter Gülke) and lied interpretation (master student (and assistant) of Peter Schreier). He completed masterclasses with Simon Halsey, Helmuth Rilling, Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, Grete Pedersen and Jorma Panula.
Enders is a scholarship holder of the Bayreuth Festival, the Bachwoche Ansbach and the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg and was sponsored by the International Masterclass of the Rundfunkchor Berlin (concert ‘Meister von morgen’)