Anna-Sophie Brüning studied violin, piano and conducting in Hanover, Berlin, Freiburg and Chicago. Her teachers include Rainer Kussmaul and Shmuel Ashkenasi (violin) as well as Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (piano). She began her career as a concertmaster with the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra, but due to an arm injury she switched to the accompaniment department and then to the conductor’s podium. The award-winning musician was engaged for several years as 1st Kapellmeister at the Coburg State Theatre and has also conducted opera at the Mannheim National Theatre, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Hanover State Opera and the Innsbruck State Theatre, among others. Engagements have taken her to renowned orchestras in Germany and abroad, to music festivals in Jerusalem, Cremona and Austria as well as to interdisciplinary collaborations with artists such as Anke Engelke, Rainer Kussmaul, Daniel Barenboim, Sabine Meyer, Juri de Marco, Paula Fünfeck and Angelika Bachmann. On behalf of the Barenboim-Said Foundation, she worked for several years as a conductor and educator in Palestine, Israel and Jordan. As an arranger and re-composer with the author Paula Fünfeck, she has produced three operas for Boosey & Hawkes, which have been translated into several languages and performed at opera houses throughout Europe, including the Hamburg and Vienna State Operas and the opera houses in Madrid and Strasbourg.

As a crossover artist between the traditional, experimental, exploratory and pedagogical worlds of music, she creates new concert formats and works with orchestras as diverse as the baroque orchestra la festa musicale Hanover, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Stegreif Orchester Berlin, the orchestra of the Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, the German-French Demos Youth Orchestra and many others. She lives with her family in Hanover.