Application deadline May 01, 2026
We are excited excited to present Prof. Ekhart Wycik’s and Prof. Roland Kluttig’s combined masterclass for professional conductors and advanced conducting students.
Both internationally acclaimed conductors will be the whole time present, every active participant will benefit from the input from both of them.
A maximum of 14 active participants will have podium time of approximately 130 minutes each. Besides the sessions with full orchestra, there will be conducting lessons with chamber ensembles.
The individual needs of each participant will be addressed in video analysis sessions, class meetings, and coachings in front of the orchestra. Conducting techniques, presence in front of the orchestra, understanding of the score, and rehearsal techniques will be explored in individual lessons as well as in group meetings.
On the last day of the masterclass, participants will have the opportunity to create their own publicity video recording during two recording sessions.
Masterclass Fees:
- Application fee: €75 (non-refundable)
- Course fee for active participants: €1950
- Course fee for passive participants: €300
- Deposit: €1300 payable due May 08, 2026
- Balance: €650 payable due July 01, 2026, or in cash on the first day of the masterclass.
Please note that these fees DO NOT include travel and accommodation.
The selection of the active participants will be communicated via email within seven days after the application deadline.
The organizer reserves the right to postpone or cancel the masterclass in case of force majeure or other unforeseeable circumstances such as governments restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, travel bans, etc. The organizer will immediately notify participants of such changes and will refund the paid fee in full in case of event cancelation. Participants may not assert any compensation claims for travel, visa, accommodation costs, etc.
Prof. Ekhart Wycik
University of Music FRANZ LISZT in Weimar/Germany
Ekhart Wycik is one of Europe’s most versatile conductors. His vast repertoire in both opera and concert genres, his stylistic versatility from the Baroque to the Contemporary, and his technical and communicative skills have made him a welcomed guest with orchestras and opera companies throughout Germany and Europe as well as internationally.
The conductor has appeared in concerts with major German orchestras including the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester (DSO) in Berlin, the Symphonic Orchestras of Frankfurt, Berlin, and Bochum, the North Germany Philharmonic Rostock, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Staatsorchester Darmstadt, and Saarbrücken’s and Cologne’s Radio Symphony Orchestras. International invitations came from orchestras in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, Great Britain, Greece, Asia and the United States.
Being educated at the Robert Schumann University of Music/Düsseldorf and in Vienna, he started his career as classical Kapellmeister at several German Opera houses, was endorsed by the “Dirigentenforum” of the German Music Council and continued his studies with Heinz Rögner, Rolf Reuter, and Leif Segerstam. Together with his appointment as Associated General Music Director at Dortmund Opera House/Germany he became also Principal Guest Conductor at the Wichita Grand Opera, Kansas/USA and started conducting internationally (Glasgow, Seoul, Bolzano, Darmstadt, Athens, Innsbruck, Sarasota/Florida, amongst others).
In 2010, Wycik was appointed assistant professor for conducting at the Robert Schumann University of Music/Düsseldorf and assistant professor for opera studies at the Universtity of Music Cologne. In 2011, the Indiana University Bloomington/USA invited him for a guest professorship.
In 2015, Ekhart Wycik was appointed Music Director at the Festival Inese Galante, Rīga/Latvia. In Master Classes he has worked with young musicians in Germany, Austria, Korea, the Baltic States, the UK and the USA. At the finals of the 9. International Franz Liszt Piano competition, he jumped in for Christian Thielemann on short note, conducting all the Liszt works for piano solo and orchestra plus symphonic poems.
In 2016, Ekhart Wycik was appointed Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT in Weimar/Germany, where he teaches in a team with Prof. Nicolás Pasquet. Students of the Weimar conducting class keep being successful in various positions in Germany and Europe.
Prof. Roland Klutig
Chief conductor of the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic,
University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden
After he had successfully directed new productions of Paul Duka’s “Ariane et Barbe Bleu” and Karol Szymanowski’s “Król Roger” at this house in previous years, the 20/21 season began with a production of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s opera “The Passenger”. will also appear on CD and DVD next autumn. He opened the 2021/22 season at the Graz Opera with a concert that combined Strauss’s “Alpine Symphony” with Georg Friedrich Haas concerto grosso for 4 alphorns. He will conduct new productions of his opera “Morgen und Abend” as the Austrian premiere and Wagner’s “Der flende Holländer” as well as concerts in Graz’s Stefaniensaal and the Konzerthaus Wien with the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra.
After stepping in at the Salzburg Festival in 2021 with a performance of Morton Feldman’s opera “Neither” and the RSO Vienna, the FAZ wrote “Roland Kluttig, one of the few conductors in the world who can perform the latest music as well as Beethoven, Wagner or Sibelius”.
From 2010 to 2020, Kluttig was general music director at the Landestheater Coburg, where he made headlines in particular with his conducting of “Lohengrin” and “Parsifal”, inspired the audience with new concert formats and was named conductor of the year for his conducting of Beethoven’s “Fidelio”. annual survey of the “Opernwelt” was nominated.
Roland Kluttig also directed the new productions of “Salome” directed by Kirill Serebrennikow and “Le nozze di Figaro” at the Stuttgart State Opera – a house where he was engaged as Kapellmeister and assistant conductor from 2000 to 2004 and has been a regular guest since 2012. He also conducted at the Hamburg State Opera (“Die tote Stadt”) and directs new productions at the Frankfurt Opera (“Euryanthe”), the Opera du Rhin Strasbourg (a Kurt Weill evening), the Leipzig Opera (“Die Liebe zu Drei Oranges”) and the Swedish Norrlandsoperan (“Peter Grimes” and “Wozzeck”).
In the concert field, he has performed with a repertoire ranging from Rameau to Lachenmann with orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonia, Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia, Seoul Philharmonic or the Orchester Philharmonique de Luxembourg.
His discography includes recordings of Schönberg’s “Moses and Aron” with the Stuttgart State Opera or works by lesser played composers who are very close to his heart, such as Erwin Schulhoff with the DSO Berlin and Silvestre Revueltas with the KNM Berlin, whose musical director he is in the 90s was. Kluttig studied in Dresden, attended master classes with conductors such as Peter Eötvös and John Eliot Gardiner and was supported by the conductors’ forum of the German Music Council, the Akademie Schloß Solitude and the Herbert von Karajan Foundation.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B♭ major, Op. 60
1st movement
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
1st movement
Carl Maria von Weber
Overture Der Freischütz, Op.77
Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74
1st movement
Fantasy Overture “Romeo and Juliet”
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
(arr. Farrington)
La mer
(arr. Farrington)
06.07.2026, Monday
12:00-13:00h First class meeting
14:00-17:00h Ensembles
18:00-21:00h Ensembles
07.07.2026, Tuesday
14:00-17:00h Full Orchestra
18:00-21:00h Full Orchestra
08.07.2026, Wednesday
14:00-16:30h Ensembles
17:30-20:00h Ensembles
09.07.2026, Thursday
14:00-16:30h Full Orchestra
17:30-20:00h Full Orchestra
10.07.2026, Friday
14:00-16:30h Full Orchestra
17:30-20:00h Full Orchestra
