{{short description|German conductor and flautist (born 1958)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{blp sources|date=November 2024}} {{update|date=November 2024}}
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'''Uwe Grodd''' (born 26 November 1958 in Stuttgart) is a German conductor and flautist, currently living in Auckland (New Zealand).
He has performed and recorded internationally for over 25 years. Grodd conducted the gala opening night of the Handel Festival in Halle, Germany, of 2003 with "Le Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre" from Grenoble followed by a highly successful season of Händel's rediscovered opera, Imeneo in the Halle Opera House.{{citation needed|date=January 2026}} His appointment to conduct the Auckland Choral Society (Auckland Choral)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dart |first1=William |title=William Dart review: Auckland Choral performs Handel's Messiah |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/william-dart-review-auckland-choral-messiah/EHFKVG7BFJHVHKBTY3IXG4GFTE/ |access-date=26 November 2024 |work=NZ Herald |date=19 December 2023}}</ref> was confirmed at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, on 28 September 2008, in a concert that concluded with Anton Bruckner's Locus iste, Handel's Coronation Anthems and "David Roi".{{citation needed|date=November 2025}}
Grodd was professor of classical performance at the University of Auckland from 1984 to 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title=Two high profile job losses confirmed at the University of Auckland |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/audio/2018649494/two-high-profile-job-losses-confirmed-at-the-university-of-auckland |access-date=26 November 2024 |work=RNZ |date=15 June 2018 |language=en-nz}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kelly-Costello |first1=Aine |title=Outrage and sadness as eminent flute Professor farewelled |url=https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/10/outrage-and-sadness-as-eminent-flute-professor-farewelled.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026054933/https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/10/outrage-and-sadness-as-eminent-flute-professor-farewelled.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2018 |access-date=26 November 2024 |work=Newshub |date=26 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
== Discography == * Joseph Haydn: Trios for flute, cello and piano Hob. XV:15–17 – Christopher Hinterhuber, piano; Martin Rummel, cello – Naxos 8.572667 (2011)
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== External links == * [https://uwegrodd.com/ Personal website of Uwe Grodd] * [https://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/1047.htm Uwe Grodd biography and discography at Naxos.com]
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