Stefan Ottersbach

Stefan Ottersbach

Lecturer for Orchestral Conducting , the State University of Music Karlsruhe 

University Music Director , the Justus Liebig University in Giessen



Born in Cologne in 1966, Stefan Ottersbach studied at the music academies in Cologne, Bern, Düsseldorf and Munich after graduating from high school. There he completed his studies with a master class diploma. From 1992–1999 he was engaged as concertmaster or section leader in various German and Swiss orchestras. Furthermore, from 1993–1997 he was first violinist of the Pegasos Quartet in Stuttgart, whose work was particularly dedicated to so-called “degenerate music”. After several years as musical director of the Heidenheimer Volksschauspiele, Ottersbach was appointed first conductor at the Nordhausen Theater / Loh Orchestra in Sondershausen in 1999. There he directed the German premiere of Aaron Copland's opera The Tender Land and the widely acclaimed premiere of Ludger Vollmer's opera Paul und Paula. Since 2005 Stefan Ottersbach has been University Music Director at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. In the years 2006–2011 he also held a teaching position for orchestral conducting at the State University of Music in Karlsruhe. From 2009 to 2017 he was chief conductor of the Frankfurter Sinfoniker, with whom he realized various radio and television productions for Hessischer Rundfunk. A highlight of this collaboration was a concert he conducted and moderated in the Berlin Philharmonic in 2016. For 2012, Ottersbach also took on the artistic direction of the Laubach Opera House. In this role, in July 2012, he directed the rehearsal and performance of the Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From 2013 to 2015 he was regularly invited by the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts to work with the local university orchestra. Again the State University of Music Karlsruhe appointed him in December 2017 to a permanent position as a lecturer for orchestral conducting at the beginning of the summer semester 2018. Stefan Ottersbach will perform this task in addition to his work in Giessen.
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