Biography
Luka Hauser joins the KD Schmid Fellowship
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Conductor and pianist Luka Hauser is the 1st Kapellmeister and Assistant Conductor to Cornelius Meister at the Staatsoper Stuttgart from the season 2023/24.
In this capacity he has conducted performances of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff and Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny, and assisted productions of Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, Elektra, Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung and Dvorak's Rusalka at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia. Other highlights of the season include debuts with the Göttinger Symphoniker and the Danish National Radio Orchestra and he was one of three finalists for the Siemens Conducting Scholarship of the Berlin Philharmonic.
In the season 24/25, Luka Hauser will conduct Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, Johann Strauss/Ralph Benantky's Casanova and Antonin Dvorak's Rusalka at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. He will also make his debut with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken and the Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli, conducting his own production of Weill's Mahagonny.
In recent seasons, Luka Hauser has gained valuable experience as an assistant to renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Vladimir Jurowsky with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Markus Stenz at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Markus Poschner at the Landestheater Linz and at the Bayreuth Festival, and Cornelius Meister at the Open Air Klassik concerts with the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover. He has also conducted orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphonieorchester Liechtenstein, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the Thüringer Symphoniker.
Luka Hauser gained further experience in master classes with Danielle Gatti, Andres Orozco Estrada, Uroš Lajovic and Sian Edwards. Born in Spain in 1997 into a musical family of Serbian-German origin, Luka began playing the piano at the age of 5 and was accepted to the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar at the age of 17. He went on to study piano at the UdK Berlin and conducting at the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin under the guidance of Grigory Grumman, Gottlieb Wallisch, Christian Ehwald, Alexander Vitlin and Markus Stenz.
Luka Hauser has been a scholarship holder of the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council.
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.
