Clemens Schuldt

Conductor

“He delivered Wagner Prelude and Liebestod with such delicately layered textures, such perfectly judged suspensions and such nobility of expression that his win seemed a forgone conclusion.”    The Independent

28-year-old conductor Clemens Schuldt is the winner of the renowned Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in 2010. As a result Clemens is Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for one year. During this time he works with distinguished conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding and Sir Simon Rattle as well as having his own conducting opportunities. In 2010 he also became a scholarship holder of the “Dirigentenforums des Deutschen Musikrates”.

The 2011/12 season sees him conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in a programme including Beethoven Symphony No.7 and Mozart clarinet concerto with Andrew Marriner, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the WDR Rundfunkorchester Cologne, the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Orquesta Sinfonica y Coro de RTVE Madrid, the Osaka Symphony, the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra Vietnam, the Slovak Sinfonietta and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra at the Beethoven Easter Festival Warsaw. Further afield Clemens Schuldt appears with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. Recent performances included the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, the Bremer Philharmoniker and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.

Opera is becoming a more central part of Clemens Schuldt’s music making. Sir Colin Davis took him to the Aix-en-Provence Festival to assist him on Mozart La Clemenza di Tito, a David McVicar production. He worked with Hermann Bäumer on Offenbach Tales of Hoffmann at the Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück and he is going to lead performances of Dvorak Rusalka at the Theater Gelsenkirchen.

Clemens Schuldt enjoys working with youth orchestras and young audiences. Besides the Discovery concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre London, he is a regular guest with orchestras such as Schumann Camerata in Düsseldorf (founded by colleague Alexander Shelley) and with the Junges Klangforum Mitte Europa (Young Sound Forum of Central Europe). With the latter he has just returned from a successful tour including the Tonhalle Düsseldorf performing Beethoven Leonoren Overture No 3 and the German premiere of Maki Ishii’s Symphonic poem Illusion and Death.

Clemens Schuldt is particularly dedicated to new music and he gained vast experiences at festivals as the Warsaw Autumn International Contemporary Music Festival. The world premiere of Halo by Vlad Maistorovici with the London Symphony Orchestra was a recent highlight.

Born in Bremen, Clemens Schuldt studied violin at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, performing in the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne under Markus Stenz and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Paavo Järvi. Subsequently he took up his conducting studies with Rüdiger Bohn in Düsseldorf, with Mark Stringer in Vienna and currently with Nicolas Pasquet in Weimar.

SEASON 2011/2012