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ANDRÉ PHILIPP GOLD studied church music and choir conducting with distinction in Salzburg and Munich. Since 1999 he has been cantor at the parish church of St. Nikolaus, Neuötting.  In 2015 he founded the transnational euergio oratorio choir. Gold has conducted national and international choirs and orchestras, has led the renowned Munich Oratorio Choir since 2014 and founded the semi-professional chamber choir “cantus aurumque” in 2017.

Since 2019 he has also been heard as a singer and pianist in concert series at the Munich Cultural Summit and was awarded the Altötting District Culture Prize in 2020. He regularly gives concerts in Munich's large concert halls or “open air” concerts. Highlights were concerts at Burghauser Castle, Frauenbühl Castle and Dillingen Castle. In Bratislava he conducted a concert under the patronage of the President and is regularly featured in the media.

Especially during the corona pandemic, Gold was committed to culture and music colleagues with constantly new concepts and, in addition to art exhibitions, called "Art takes place inside" in the Neuötting shops and the city parish church with the support of WINN, the Altötting artists' association, the city of Neuötting, the Altötting district and AllroundTV brings the Neuöttinger market music to life as a media companion. 

Together with the editor of AllroundTV, Dr. Nicole Petzi also started a new media format “Culture Walk” to fill either closed cultural sites or non-public ones, such as castles, gardens, etc., with music. 

He has been teaching choir conducting in Upper Austria since 2010 and has enriched the Innviertel with many new ideas. André Gold can also be heard in organ concerts at home and abroad, led the organ festival for the pilgrimage, Altötting and initiated the first international organ festival in Braunau in 2023 with artists from Germany, Austria and Poland.

Due to his extensive concert activity and his cultural initiatives, André Gold was appointed "Music Director" by the Association of German Professional Choir Directors. Since June he has been teaching at the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences and directs the newly founded Mühldorf/Burghausen campus choir. 

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