Friedrich Praetorius
*1996, Germany
Since 2023 Friedrich Praetorius (*1996) is Kapellmeister at the Theater Chemnitz and will become “Kapellmeister and Musical Assistant to the GMD” at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from the season 2024/2025. Previously he was engaged as 2nd Kapellmeister at the German National Theater in Weimar.
He is a 1st prize winner several times, both nationally and internationally, including the 10th Conducting Competition for Opera Conductors in Orvieto (Italy), the 11th Conducting Competition of Central-German Universities of Music and the 1st Conducting Competition of the University Almeria (Spain), as well as 2nd Prize winner of the CAMPUS DIRIGIEREN. Since 2021 he has been Conducting Fellow with the Forum Dirigieren of the German Music Council.
He began his education as a member of the "St. Thomas Boys Choir" and studied with Prof. Nicolás Pasquet and Prof. Ekhart Wycik at the Weimar Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt. In order to enrich his studies, he attended masterclasses with many conductors, among them Christian Thielemann, Marc Albrecht, Johannes Schlaefli, Gunter Kahlert, Arthur Fagen and Ole Kristian Ruud.
