The National Youth Orchestra has no permanent principal conductor.  Different internationally renowned conductors and superb young orchestra directors are engaged for each work period.

 

All conductors of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany:

Gerd Albrecht, Amy Andersson, Matthias Bamert, Rudolf Barschai, Henri Bert, Gary Bertini, Andrey Boreyko, Rainer Glen Buschmann, John Carewe, Carl St.Clair, Roger Covel, Oskar Danon, Dennis Russell Davies, Hermann Dechant, Gustavo Dudamel, Gabriel Feltz, Matthias Foremny, Carlo Maria Giulini, Herbert Görtz, Howard Griffiths, Christóbal Halffter, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Thomas Hengelbrock, Peter Hirsch, Michael Hofstetter, Heinz Holliger, James Judd, Herbert von Karajan, Bernhard Klee, Zdenek Kosler, Yakov Kreizberg, Patrick Lange, Alessandro de Marchi, Kurt Masur, Werner Maklary, Andris Nelsons, Werner Neuber, Eiji Oue, Roberto Paternostro, Kirill Petrenko, Marc Piollet, Christoph Prick, Ari Rasilainen, Casper Richter, Ronly Riklis, Bernd Ruf, Stefan Sanderling, Heinrich Schiff, Helga Schmidt, Georg Schmöhe, Gunther Schuller, Alexander Schwinck, Klauspeter Seibel, Steven Sloane, Leopold Stokowski, Jac van Steen, Gilbert Varga, Mario Venzago, Christian Voß, Volker Wangenheim, Bernhard Wulff, Lothar Zargrosek, Hans Zender

 

Assistants

 

Mostly in cooperation with the Conductors Forum of the German Music Council:

Christoph Altstaedt, Daniel Geiss, Ulrich Kern, Johannes Klumpp, Patrick Lange, Lorenz Nordmeyer, Hendrik Vestmann