Kevin F.E. Sütterlin

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Dr. Kevin F.E. Sütterlin is an internationally sought-after conductor and pedagogue. A dedicated 21st century musician, Sütterlin is passionate about exploring new, non-traditional forms of musical experience.

 Sütterlin is Director of Orchestral Activities and Opera and Professor of Instrumental Conducting at Concordia College, where he and his colleagues received two EMMY awards for 2016’s nationally broadcast Concordia Christmas Concert productions. He is Music Director and Conductor of The Concordia Orchestra and Concordia Opera. He most recently won the prestigious American Prize 2018-19 with his Concordia Orchestra. Sütterlin further is an awardee of the Hirschmann Foundation scholarship of Switzerland, the Hendrickson Fine Arts Grant, the University of Memphis International Research scholarship, and the University of Memphis Creative Achievement Award.

 Sütterlin is Music Director and Conductor of the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra, one of Wisconsin’s finest professional symphonies. Furthermore, Sütterlin is Artistic Director of theSinfonietta Academy for Historically Informed Performance Practice, and founding Co-Music Director of Sinfonietta Memphis, an ensemble that provides free concerts and educational experiences for Memphis’s most diverse communities. Perhaps the only ensemble in the US with a co-music directorship model, Sinfonietta Memphis’s conductors Mathias Elmer and Kevin Sütterlin proudly represent the orchestra’s credo: friendship through music.

Sütterlin holds The Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Endowed Orchestra Chair as Director of Orchestral Activities and Conducting Studies of the Lutheran Summer Music Festival and Academy. He is also the Artistic Director of the Northern Valley Youth Orchestras.

Considering himself a "citizen of the world," Sütterlin has been building musical bridges across four different continents, and has led his ensembles on many successful national and international tours. He has performed and taught across the globe including Austria, China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United States. He recently conducted the Fargo-Moorhead Opera’s production of Humperdinck’s Hänsel & Gretel to great acclaim. Institutions he has taught at include the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Sichuan Conservatory, The University of Hawaii, Lucerne Conservatory Switzerland, and The University of Memphis. This upcoming season Sütterlin will guest conduct in South Africa, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Texas, Alabama, Connecticut, Virginia, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Minnesota.

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