Ekkehard Klemm

Born in 1958 in what is now Chemnitz, Klemm was a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor before studying conducting and composition in Dresden with Siegfried Kurz, Hartmut Haenchen, Wilfried Krätzschmar and Manfred Weiss. Via the Landestheater Altenburg and the Theater Vorpommern, Klemm came to the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich in 1996, where he worked as a conductor for 11 years. He conducted premieres and first performances of works by Henze, Schnebel, Nono, Goldmann, Schenker, Tarnopolski, Krätzschmar, Weiss, Rautavaara, Terterian, Münch and Voigtländer and many others. Since 2003 Klemm has been Professor of Conducting and Director of the University Symphony Orchestra at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, of which he was also Rector between 2010 and 2015. From 200