Death of the conductor Lutz Rademacher
According to a statement from the Landestheater Detmold, the German conductor Lutz Rademacher, who was assistant to the chief conductor at the Theater Basel from 2003, has died at the age of 56.
Trained at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, Rademacher was engaged as a conductor in Basel and Freiburg, among other places. Most recently, as GMD, he gave new impetus to the concert life of the city of Detmold with innovative concert formats and ambitious music theater programs.
Since the summer semester of 2024, Lutz Rademacher has passed on his knowledge as a lecturer in orchestral and ensemble conducting at Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg. He was also a lecturer for Ensemble New Music at the HfMT Hamburg. No cause of death is given in the announcement.
