User:Martin Wettges

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Born in Regensburg, Germany in 1983, Martin Wettges studied orchestral conducting with Prof. Bruno Weil at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, and with Prof. Mark Gibson at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Further forming teachers were Paavo Järvi, Ekkehard Klemm and Siegfried Mauser. After engagements as a repetiteur with the International Opera Studio Merano (Italy), Oper im Schloss Munich, the Orpheus Ensemble, Freies Landestheater Bayern (2004 – 2006), and as chorus director at the Munich Prinzregententheater he made his opera conducting debut in Munich with Verdi’s "La Traviata" in 2006. Wettges has conducted several major orchestras, including the Munich Symphony Orchestra (Münchner Symphoniker), the Munich Radio Orchestra (Münchner Rundfunkorchester), CCM Philharmonia Orchestra Cincinnati and the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra, where he is regular guest conductor. In 2008 he served as assistant conductor for the Deutsche Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin and the Münchner Biennale. Martin Wettges has been music director of the Symphonieorchester der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes since its founding in 2005. From 2009 he will be music director of the Mauritian Opera Festival. Together with the director Tobias Kratzer and stage designer Rainer Sellmaier, Wettges won the ring.award 08 as music director for a production of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the opera house in Graz, Austria. He won scholarships from the German Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), the University of Cincinnati, the Mark-Lothar-Stiftung and the Richard-Wagner-Foundation, Bayreuth.