Since 1998, Dr. Knut Andreas is artistic director of the Collegium musicum Potsdam symphony orchestra, which under his direction has grown from a chamber orchestra to one of the largest-staffed orchestras in the state of Brandenburg and today has more than 75 musicians. In recent years, the orchestra has travelled to places such as Slovenia, where it performed Carl Orff's “Carmina Burana“ with two Slovenian choirs to audiences totalling 1,500, on the occasion of the German Unity Day. Together with the Collegium musicum Potsdam symphony orchestra, Knut Andreas has developed programmes for the cultural education of children, adolescents and families. One of the more recent projects is dedicated to the elderly living in nursing homes and not able to visit symphony concerts on their own. The “Classical Music on Weberplatz“ series, existing since 2011, annually attracts 1,500 to 2,000 listeners to the Babelsberg Weberplatz. Since 2011, he and the Collegium musicum Potsdam symphony orchestra have implemented the intercultural project “Brandenburg-Brazil“, which has brought numerous Brazilian soloists and conductors to Potsdam, among them singer Eliana Printes, trumpeter Paulo Ronqui and conductor Parcival Módolo.

Brazilian conductor Parcival Módolo completed his conducting studies in Germany at the Westphalian Church Music School with a focus on music of the 17th and 18th centuries. At this time he led various German orchestras as guest conductor and was chief conductor of the symphony orchestra Sundern (Herford). Parcival Módolo is a student of notable conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Metha and Sergiu Celibidache. In 1989, Parcival Módolo received a teaching assignment at the University of San Diego, California (USA). Shortly after that he completed his doctorate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As a professor, he receives numerous invitations for special courses and presentations by various universities of Brazil and other countries.

Since fall 2013, Andreas Zühlke has taken over the programmatic work with the brass ensemble of the orchestra as well as substitute direction of rehearsals of the entire orchestra. He began his training on the trumpet at the young age of seven. The Fürstenwalde native found his first musical home as a 10-year old at the 1st Brandenburg Guard Wind Band, to which he has not only remained faithful since then but where he also took over the direction of development work with young players a few years later. Since 2007 he is one of two musical directors of the entire wind orchestra.