Andreas Hotz is one of the outstanding conductors of his generation and has been a professor at the HfM Würzburg as Musical Director of the Opera School since the summer semester of 2021. After becoming a prize winner of the Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition and the German Conducting Competition, he began a successful career. As one of Germany's youngest general music directors, he took up his post at the Theater Osnabrück in the 2012/2013 season.

His path was paved by the diverse experiences of a classical German Kapellmeister career with stations as first Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Mainz and Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. Guest conducting engagements have taken him to a variety of orchestras in Germany, to the opera houses in Wiesbaden and Nuremberg, to Israel, Australia, Poland, Russia and Korea. For many years he has worked with numerous orchestras such as the Bremen Philharmonic, the Düsseldorf Symphony, the Melbourne Victoria Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Sinfonietta. After a highly acclaimed production of Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" at the National Opera in Seoul, regular invitations for concerts and operas in South Korea followed. At the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, he studied orchestral conducting, piano, accompaniment and organ, and completed his conducting exam "with distinction". Here he also taught orchestral conducting from 2005 - 2013. He was sponsored by the German Music Council within the framework of the Conducting Forum and was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Akademie Musiktheater heute.

Pierre Boulez and Reinhard Goebel in particular became formative mentors for him. At the Staatstheater Mainz and the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Andreas Hotz has conducted numerous productions such as Elektra, Otello, Tannhäuser, Idomeneo, Così fan tutte and Tristan und Isolde. As General Music Director at the Theater Osnabrück, he was responsible for, among other things opera premieres of Lohengrin, Falstaff, Dr. Faust (Busoni), Tosca, La Bohème, Fidelio, Manon Lescaut, Figaro, Simon Boccanegra, La Forza des destino, or Die Vögel by Walter Braunfels.

In 2015, he was nominated by "Opernwelt" as Young Conductor of the Year.

After a brilliant media response, the excavation of the French opera GUERCOEUR by Albéric Magnard, which he initiated, was named "Rediscovery of the Year 2019" by "Opernwelt". Various CD recordings underline his commitment to forgotten works of orchestral literature. Among others, the recordings with works by Christian Westerhoff, as well as the CD production of Hans Gál's "Lied der Nacht", nominated for the "Opus Klassik", testify to this. The recording of the DVD "Beethoven in Stalingrad" was awarded the Prize of the German Record Critics. In 2015, Andreas Hotz joined the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra as ambassador of the city of peace Osnabrück on several concert tours in the spirit of international understanding and conducted concerts in Volgograd, Moscow, Kiev and Minsk. He shows his extensive concert repertoire in projects such as a cycle of all Beethoven symphonies or the performance of the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten.