Manuel Grund, born in 1988, studied percussion, choral and orchestral conducting, music education and cultural management at the universities of music in Rostock, Mannheim, Saarbrücken and Hamburg. Manuel Grund has already been invited to various national and international opera houses, symphony orchestras and festivals. As a guest conductor he has conducted nationally and internationally (including in Spain and the USA) various choirs and orchestras and is a sought-after speaker and juror at numerous national and international events. Since September 2021 Manuel Grund is deputy headmaster of the Berufsfachschule für Musik Oberfranken (Germany). In addition to conducting the concert choir, he teaches orchestral conducting, music theory, arrangement and music education. In the 2021/22 season he has been Music Director of the Symphony Orchestra Neustadt/Coburg.