Andreas Kißling

At the age of nine Andreas Kißling received his first lessons on the flute at a music school in the town of Göppingen. He went on to study at Berlin’s University of the Arts under Roswitha Staege and Karlheinz Zoeller. In 2006 he took third prize at the Aurèle Nicolet Competition in Beijing. While still a student, Andreas Kißling was principal flautist of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern, and sub-principal flautist of the State Opera in Stuttgart. Since February 2011 he has been principal flautist of the Staatskapelle Dresden.