Staatsorchester Stuttgart

Konrad Junghänel is one of the most renowned lutenists internationally and leading interpreters of the works for lute by Bach and Silvius Leopold Weiss. He was awarded the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis for his recording of the solo works of Weiss. Konrad Junghänel has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, the USA, Japan, Australia, South America and Africa and works regularly with René Jacobs and the ensembles Les Arts Florissants, La Petite Bande and Musica Antiqua Köln. In 1987 he founded the vocal ensemble Cantus Cölln which he directs. Recently Konrad Junghänel has increasingly worked in the theatre, and has conducted “Combattimenti” with madrigals by Monteverdi in Amsterdam and Brussels, Cavalli’s La Calisto in Cologne and Mazzocchi’s La catena d’Adone in Innsbruck and Antwerp. At the Theater Basel he conducted Wie liegt die Stadt so wüste with music by Heinrich Schütz and Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt as well as Semele, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, the staged production of Bach cantatas “Ein geistliches Bankett” in Hamburg, Purcell’s Hail! Bright Cecilia in Hannover, Poro, Rè dell’Indie at the Göttingen Handel Festival, Così fan tutte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Potsdam. He has also conducted Lucio Silla in Stuttgart, the “Florentine Intermedii” and Handel’s Agrippina in Saarbrücken and Armida in Berlin. Konrad Junghänel is currently preparing another Gluck production, Orfeo ed Euridice, in Cologne.