Since the start of the 2024/25 season Yura Yang has been principal Kapellmeister at the Leipzig Opera, where this season she conducts the premieres of the ballets Humans and Die Mondprinzessin and revivals of La traviata, Hänsel und Gretel, Der Freischütz, Die Zauberflöte and Undine. She also makes her debuts with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Bodensee Philharmonie Konstanz and the Staatsorchester Rheinische-Philharmonie in Koblenz. In 2023/24 she made her debut in Leipzig with Die Zauberflöte and conducted concerts for Theater Erfurt, Theater Regensburg and the Munich Radio Orchestra.
From 2021 to 2024 she was Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where she conducted Nabucco, Carmen and La finta giardiniera, as well as Salome, Hänsel und Gretel, Die lustige Witwe, Aida, Rusalka and La bohème. She also made guest appearances with Reimann’s Gespenstersonate at the Semperoper Dresden, Kálmán’s Die Csárdásfürstin at the Brucknerhaus Linz and Die Zauberflöte at the Aalto Musiktheater Essen, and was a guest conductor for symphonic concerts at the theatres of Erfurt and Gießen.
During 2018/19 she was Kapellmeister and musical assistant to the general music director at Theater Kiel. There she conducted productions including Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Swan Lake, Die Frau ohne Schatten and the world premiere of Marco Tutino’s Falscher Verrat. In 2019/20 she was engaged as principal Kapellmeister and deputy general music director at Theater Aachen, where she conducted productions of Werther, Sweeney Todd and The Queen of Spades.
From 2012 to 2018 she was a répétiteur with conducting engagements at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen. In 2014/15 she received a conducting scholarship from the Bergische Symphoniker.
Yura Yang took a Bachelor’s degree in conducting at the Detmold University of Music from 2009 to 2013. From 2018 she studied for a Master’s degree at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, graduating in 2021. In 2016 she became a member of the Forum Dirigieren (Conductors’ Forum) of the German Music Council, and in 2019 she joined Forum Dirigieren’s concert funding programme.
