In 2019, I got my first chance to take the role of the musical director in musical theatre. At the Kammertheater Karlsruhe, the play “Love is…” was in development and I was offered to take on the responsibility of arranging and rehearsing the songs with the cast. In just 5 weeks, I arranged the songs for four singers, created half-playbacks and soundmaps for the live piano and accompanied the rehearsals, all the while still studying music informatics full-time. In the end, I played the keyboard for all the shows, too.
This was truly a memorable experience, not just for personal reasons, but also because it was my first time actively being a part of the rehearsal progress from beginning to end. I fell in love with it and decided, I wanted to include musical theatre in my work life moving forward.