Conductor Sebastian Weigle specializes in Romantic opera, especially Wagner, and has conducted at some of the world's leading opera houses. Weigle was a founding member of the Berlin Wind Quintet in 1975. From 1982 until 1997, he was principal hornist of the Berlin Staatskapelle. Weigle founded the Kammerchor Berlin in 1987. From 1993 to 2018, he was music director of the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg. The year 1993 also saw Weigle make his recording debut as hornist of the Berliner Bläserquintett on the album Jean Françaix in Concert. His conducting debut on recordings came in 1998, leading the Ensemble Villa Musica on an album of works by Louis Spohr. In 2019, he was named principal conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, where he remained as of the mid-2020s. In 2023, he led the Frankfurter Opern- and Museumsorchester, Frankfurt Opera Chorus, and soloists in Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Christmas Eve.