Wolf Kerschek

Composer | Arranger | conductor Echo-Klassik and Hamburg jazz award winner Wolf Kerschek works internationally as a composer, conductor and arranger. In addition to the who's who of jazz (HR, WDR, NDR Big Band, Metropole Orkest etc.), his spectrum also includes classical music (Tokyo Symphony, Salzburg Camerata, Utah / Nashville Symphony etc.) and national and international pop (from Helene Fischer to Rammstein & from Michael Bolton to Rick Springfield). He conducted and orchestrated the FIFA anthem that sounds before every soccer World Cup game, composed the official ARD songs for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the World Athletics Championships in London and the European Women's Football Championship 2016 and received the titles for the world records as conductor of the largest orchestra in the world (2016) and the largest rock band in the world (2019).

Since 2004 he has been the director of the jazz course and professor of jazz composition and ensemble management at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama.

As a film composer and producer trained in the USA, he runs his own orchestra studio with a large studio musician network, which specializes in large productions and offers space for orchestras and big bands.

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