Music Director of the Lucerne Theater appointed
Clemens Heil, who has been Principal Conductor at Theater Bremen since 2012, will become Music Director at Lucerne Theatre from the 2016/17 season under the directorship of Benedikt von Peter.
Heil was born in Wiesbaden and grew up in Tübingen. He received piano and organ lessons at an early age. He also studied church music at the Rottenburg (Neckar) University of Applied Sciences and was a member of the Rottenburg Cathedral Boys' Choir for many years. Trained as a pianist and conductor at the Stuttgart and Freiburg music academies, his first engagements took him to the state operas of Stuttgart and Hanover, initially as a répétiteur and choirmaster.
As solo repetiteur and conductor at the Staatstheater Mainz, he was ultimately able to develop a large and wide-ranging repertoire. In 2007/08 Clemens Heil was conductor of the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt. Since then, he has worked regularly with the Ensemble Modern, giving concerts in Germany and abroad as well as radio and CD productions.
