“With the exceptional Roland Kluttig, the evening’s conducting was in dynamic hands….”
Frankfurter Rundschau, Bernard Uske
Roland Kluttig (b. 1968) is one of Germany’s most accomplished conductors of his generation, equally successful on concert-podiums and opera houses. His command of an eclectic repertoire reaching from the classic repertoire into the most contemporary avant garde has made him a welcome guest conductor in an ever-expanding list of prestigious orchestras.
Roland Kluttig began his career as associate conductor at the Stuttgart Opera 2000-2004 where he gained considerable acclaim for his direction of Schönberg’s Moses und Aron , a production subsequently released on CD. His productions in Stuttgart included such stylistically diverse works as Don Giovanni, Les contes d’Hoffman, Don Carlo and Nono’s Al gran sole, Helmut Lachenmann’s Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern and Morton Feldman’s Neither.
In 2008 Roland Kluttig conducted Peter Grimes at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå, Sweden – a production that was met with uniform critical praise. His next venture to the opera stage was L’amour de trois oranges at Oper Leipzig in the season 2009/2010, a season that also included his débuts with The Copenhagen Philharmonic, Orchèstre National de Bordeaux, Uppsala Chamber orchestra and Jena Philharmonic as well as re-invitations to Dresden Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Other orchestras include the radio symphony orchestras of Stuttgart, Freiburg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Leipzig and Munich, Deutsches Symphonieorchester, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Iceland Symphony, Klangforum Wien, Asko Amsterdam and Collegium Novum Zurich, NorrlandsOperans Symfoniorkester (SONO).
From the season 2010/11 Roland Kluttig will be music director of Landtestheater Coburg/Coburg Philharmonic and the same season will also include his debuts with Orchèstre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Prague Chamber Philharmonic. Re-invitations include Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, SONO and a new production of L’amour de trois oranges forStaatstheater Bern.
Roland Kluttig is well known for creating imaginative and groundbreaking concert programs and examples of his extraordinary programs are the combination of Varèse’s Ameriques and Frank Zappa’s large scale orchestra pieces (with the Dresden Philharmonic) or Haydn’s Seven last words and Messiaen’s Expecto ressurctionem with Konzerthausorchester Berlin. His program with Hanns Eisler’s American movie scores has been invited to the Salzburg Biennale 2011.
Among mentors with whom Roland Kluttig has worked closely we find Peter Eötvös, John Eliot Gardiner, Sylvain Cambreling and Lothar Zagrosek. He is a recipient of grants and awards from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation and the German Music Council, Academie Schloss Solitude a.o.
