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Florian Ludwig

Born 1970 (age 53–54)

Gerolzhofen, Bavariaba, Germany

Education Musikhochschule München

Occupations

Conductor

Academic teacher

Organizations

Mannheim National Theatre

Oper Hagen

Hochschule für Musik Detmold

Theater Gießen

Florian Ludwig is a German conductor focused on opera. He was music director at the Oper Hagen
from 2008 to 2016, and has worked as a guest conductor internationally. He has been professor of
orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold since 2015.

Life and career

Ludwig was born in 1970 in Gerolzhofen, Franconia,[1] the son of Kantor Klaus Uwe Ludwig. He
made music early, playing recorder and piano and singing in the church's children's choir. His father
discouraged the idea of becoming a professional musician, and he first enrolled to study physics and
astronomy.[2] He then studied at the Musikhochschule München, conducting with Hermann Michael
and Lied accompaniment with Helmut Deutsch, graduating with distinction in 1996. He was admitted
to a master class in conducting that he completed in 1998.[3] He worked with conductors including
Colin Davis and Franz Welser-Möst. With a 1997 scholarship from the city of Munich, he studied with
Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1997, he became conductor of the orchestra
of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a position he held to 2008.[3]

Ludwig was repetiteur and Kapellmeister at the Mannheim National Theatre from 1998 to 2001. He
then moved to the Bremen Opera where he became Erster Kapellmeister in 2003.[1] He was
Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) at the Oper Hagen from 2008[4] to 2017. He promoted there a broad
range of works including contemporary operas such as Barber's Vanessa[4] and crossover projects.
[2] Their programming in the 2014/15 season was warded the prize from the Verband der Deutschen
Musikverleger (German music publishers' association) for best program over a year.[5] He conducted
the world premiere of a youth opera in 2017, Tschick, after the novel and 2011 play by Wolfgang
Herrndorf, with music by Ludger Vollmer [de].[6] He became GMD of the Theater Gießen for two
years beginning in 2020, stepping in for a vacant post.[7]

Ludwig worked internationally as a guest conductor, including in Argentina. He appeared at the

Opera Cava [fi] opera festival in Nilsiä, Finland, in 2006 with Weber's opera Der Freischütz and in
2007 with Joonas Kokkonen's The Last Temptations. He conducted Offenbach's Orpheus in der
Unterwelt at the Vienna Volksoper in 2007.[1]

He has lectured orchestral conducting at the Musikhochschule Bremen until 2008 and has been
professor of orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold since 2015.[4]

References

Hoffmann, Anke (24 January 2008). "Florian Ludwig neuer GMD" (in German). Westfalenpost [de].
Retrieved 23 February 2024.

"Florian Ludwig" (in German). Domradio. 12 February 1915. Retrieved 23 February 2024.

"Musikalische Leitung" (in German). Konrad Adenauer Foundation. 2010. Retrieved 23 February
2024.

"Dirigent Florian Ludwig wird Professor in Detmold" (in German). Musik Heute. 30 March 2015.
Retrieved 23 February 2024.

"Florian Ludwig" (in German). Oldenburgisches Staatstheater. 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.

Kolter, Ulrike (17 March 2017). "On the Road". Die Deutsche Bühne (in German). Retrieved 23
February 2024.

Schepp, Karola (10 February 2020). "Florian Ludwig wird neuer Generalmusikdirektor" (in German).
Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung [de]. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
External links

Florian Ludwig Operabase

Florian Ludwig (management) agentur-seifert.de

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