Biography
Luka Hauser joins the KD Schmid Fellowship
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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.
In this capacity, he has conducted performances of Giuseppe Verdi's ‘Falstaff’ and Kurt Weill's ‘Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’ and assisted in productions of Richard Strauss' ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’, ‘Elektra’, Richard Wagner's ‘Götterdämmerung’, as well as in symphonic concerts by the Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Other highlights of the 2023/24 season included debuts with the Göttinger Symphonieorchester and the Danish National Radio Orchestra. He was also one of three finalists for the Siemens Conductors Scholarship at the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
In the 2024/25 season, Luka Hauser will conduct performances of Carl Maria von Weber's ‘Der Freischütz’, Johann Strauss/Ralph Benatzky's ‘Casanova’, and Antonín Dvořák's ‘Rusalka’ at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. He will also make his debut with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and the Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli, conducting a production of Kurt Weill's ‘Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’
In recent seasons, Luka Hauser has conducted orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein, Staatskapelle Weimar, and Thüringer Symphoniker, among others. He has also gained valuable experience as an assistant to renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Markus Stenz at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Dutch National Opera, and Markus Poschner at the Landestheater Linz and the Bayreuther Festspiele. He also assisted in a new production of Dvořák's ‘Rusalka’ at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia and at the Open Air Klassik concerts with the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover.
Born in Spain in 1997 into a musical family of German-Serbian origin, Luka Hauser began playing the piano at the age of 5 and was accepted to the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar at the age of 17 in the class of Prof. Grigory Gruzman. He went on to study piano performance at the Universität der Künste Berlin and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin under the tutelage of Gottlieb Wallisch, Christian Ehwald, Alexander Vitlin, and Markus Stenz. Further impulses came from master classes with Uroš Lajovic, Sir Donald Runnicles in Berlin, Danielle Gatti and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music in London and Andrés Orozco-Estrada at the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Luka Hauser has won prizes at international competitions such as the Concurso internacional Anton Garcia Abril in Spain, the Santa Cecilia International Competition and the Kyoto International Music Festival. In 2021, he reached the semi-finals of the Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting and in 2024 he was one of the 12 finalists of the Malko Competition. He has also been a scholarship holder of the Conducting 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.
