Gerd Albrecht has been played on NTS shows including Westward Ho! w/ Ashley Wales, with An Die Hoffnung first played on 2 January 2025.

Gerd Albrecht (19 July 1935 – 2 February 2014) was a German conductor.

Biography: Albrecht was born in Essen, the son of the musicologist Hans Albrecht (1902–1961). He studied music in Kiel and in Hamburg, where his teachers included Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg. He was a first-prize winner at the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors at age 22. His first post was as a repetiteur at the Stuttgart State Opera. Later, he became Senior Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Mainz, and Generalmusikdirektor in Lübeck. He…