Conductor Armando Merino was Winner of the 2021 Bavarian Award for the Advancement of the Arts. In 2024 he conducted a new production of Mieczys?aw Weinberg’s Lady Magnesia at the Bavarian State Opera, and also conducted Wolfgang Rihm’s Die Hamletmaschine at the Kassel State Theater. Merino has worked with major orchestras such as the Staatsorchester Kassel, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Mexican Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Magdeburgische Philharmonie Berlin and has appeared at festivals such as Wien Modern, the Munich Opera Festival, Aspekte Salzburg, Dialoge Salzburg, the Impuls Festival, MaerzMusik Berlin and Ultraschall Berlin.Since 2022 he has lectured at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich.