Biography
Olgastrasse 110,
70180 Stuttgart
___
+49 170 1249943
Luka Hauser joins the KD Schmid Fellowship
KD SCHMID
Conductor and pianist Luka Hauser is 1st Kapellmeister and Assistant Conductor to Cornelius Meister at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, a position he assumed from the 2023/24 season.
Since the 2023/24 season, conductor and pianist Luka Hauser has served as First Kapellmeister and Assistant to GMD Cornelius Meister at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
In this capacity, he has conducted performances of Falstaff, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Der Freischütz, Casanova, and Rusalka. In the 25/26 season, he will lead performances of Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Dialogues des Carmélites, Carmen, and Die Zauberflöte. Further projects at the Staatsoper Stuttgart include the family concert (Robin Hood) and the New Year’s Concert 2026.
In June 2025, Luka Hauser made his debut in a producion of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, and in April 2026 he Will conduct Der Zarewitsch at the Volksoper Vienna.
Luka Hausers symphonic debuts include appearances with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Göttinger Symphonieorchester, Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein, Staatskapelle Weimar, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, and the Thüringer Symphoniker. In the Saison 25/26 include Mahler’s Symphony No.5 at the MusicaRiva Festival and Fuat Saka’s Dark Waters with the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, as well as Brahms 4. Symphony with the Theater Schwerin.
As Assistant to General Music Director Cornelius Meister, Hauser has worked on both opera productions and symphonic concerts, including Die Frau ohne Schatten, Elektra, Götterdämmerung, Parsifal, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, and Boulez’s Notations. He has collaborated with guest conductors such as Oksana Lyniv and David Afkham.
Luka Hauser has gained valuable experience assisting renowned conductors including Zubin Mehta at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Markus Stenz at Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at Dutch National Opera, as well as Markus Poschner at the Landestheater Linz and the Bayreuth Festival. He also assisted in a new production of Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, and in the NDR Radiophilharmonie’s Open Air Classical Concerts in Hanover.
He was a finalist in prestigious international competitions such as the International Conducting Competition “Guido Cantelli” in Italy (2024) and the Siemens Conductors Scholarship at the Karajan-Akademie of the Berlin Philharmonic (2024). He conducted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra at the Malko Competition (2024) and reached the semifinals of the Tokyo International Conducting Competition (2021). Hauser is also a scholar of the Forum Dirigieren of the German Music Council.
Born in 1997 in Spain into a family of German-Serbian musicians. He later studied piano at the Berlin University of the Arts with Gottlieb Wallisch, and conducting at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with Christian Ehwald, Alexander Vitlin, and Markus Stenz. Further inspiration came from masterclasses with Uroš Lajovic, Sir Donald Runnicles (Hanns Eisler Berlin), Daniele Gatti (Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena), Sian Edwards (Royal Academy of Music, London), and Andrés Orozco-Estrada (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, Madrid).
Luka Hauser is supported by foundations including the Lyra Stiftung Zürich, the Paul-Hindemith-Gesellschaft in Berlin, the Geert und Lore Blanken-Schlemper Stiftung and the Ernst von Siemens Stiftung.
Together with string players from the Hochschule für Musik HfM "Hanns Eisler" and the Universität der Künste UdK Berlin, he founded the ensemble "Berlin Young Soloists" in 2021. In November 2021 they gave their debut in the concert hall of the UdK with works by Dvořák, Mahler and Barber. Further concerts followed as part of the Crescendo Festival Berlin.
In May 2023 Luka Hauser completed his conducting studies at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin with Christian Ehwald, Alexander Vitlin and Markus Stenz. Previously, in February 2022, he completed his piano studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Prof. Gottlieb Wallisch.
Luka Hauser is a scholarship holder of the Conducting Forum of the German Music Council.
