Born in Cologne in 1959; Johannes Kalitzke studied church music from 1974 to 1976 and then piano with Aloys Kontarsky, conducting with Wolfgang von der Nahmer and composition with York Höller at the Musikhochschule Köln. A scholarship took him to IRCAM in Paris to Vinko Globokar; he studied electronic music with Hans Ulrich Humpert in Cologne. In 1984 he conducted for the first time at the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, whose principal conductor he was from 1988 to 1990. In 1991 he was among the founders of the Ensemble Musikfabrik, which he also directed. Since 2015 he has been professor of conducting at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. He received the Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Preis and in 2003 a fellowship of the Villa Massimo in Rome; since 2009 he has belonged to the Akademie der Künste Berlin and since 2015 to the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste. His stage works include “Pym” after Edgar Allan Poe for the Theater Heidelberg; further operas were given their first performances at the Bremer Oper and at the Münchener Biennale.
Johannes Kalitzke
Conductor / Composer
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