Roland Kluttig

Roland Kluttig, born 1968 near Dresden, is one of the today’s most accomplished German conductors of his generation.
He gained considerable acclaim for his recording of Schoenberg „Moses und Aron“ with the cast, chorus and orchestra of Stuttgart Opera. Before he was an Associate Conductor for this house from 2000-04, when the company ranked “Opera of the Year“ in Germany four times. Other productions he conducted there include “Don Giovanni”, “Les contes d´Hoffmann”, “Don Carlo” as well as the complex oeuvres of Luigi Nono “Al gran sole”, Helmut Lachenmann “Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern” and Morton Feldman „Neither“.
His current and future engagements include orchestras like Dresden Philharmonic, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Stuttgart, Freiburg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Leipzig and Munich, Deutsches Symphonieorchester and Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Residentie Orkest The Hague, Iceland Symphony, Klangforum Vienna, ASKO Amsterdam and Collegium Novum Zurich.
Examples for his extraordinary programmings are the combination of Varese „Ameriques“ and Frank Zappas large scale orchestra pieces with Dresden Philharmonic or Haydns „Seven last words“ and „Et exspecto ressurectionem“ by Olivier Messiaen with Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
He conducted the world premiere of Richard Ayres opera „The cricket recovers“ at the Aldeburgh Festival 2005 what was named „the best production of a new opera“ by „The Independent“. From 2004 – 2006 he was Principal Conductor of the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado.
He worked closely with conductors Peter Eötvös, John Eliot Gardiner, Sylvain Cambreling and Lothar Zagrosek.  He is recipient of grants and awards from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation and German Music Council.
One of Mr. Kluttig’s first professional appointments following college was Music Director of KNM Berlin (1993-99), which under his direction became one of the finest contemporary music ensembles in Germany. Together they were featured in a series at Berlin Konzerthaus, at festivals in Cologne, Munich, Prague and Moscow. They are continuing their collaboration with programmes on composers like Varese, Xenakis and Hanns Eisler.