Clemens Schuldt is the Principal Conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, and is widely praised for his innovative interpretations of classical and romantic Germanic repertoire, often using his creativity to include lesser known and contemporary repertoire in his programmes. Winner of the renowned Donatella Flick Conducting Competition London in 2010, Clemens Schuldt was the Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for one year, working with distinguished conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev and Sir Simon Rattle.

Schuldt has appeared with such orchestras as the Philharmonia Orchestra London, BBC Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Netherlands Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Norwegian Opera Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orquesta Sinfonica de Radio Television Espanola Madrid, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona. Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra Tokyo, New Japan Philharmonic, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

Soloists he works with include Daniil Trifonov, Ingrid Fliter, Augustin Hadelich, Baiba Skride, Alina Ibragimova, Håkan Hardenberger, François Leleux, Steven Isserlis, Sally Matthews, Lisa Batiashvili and Renaud Capuçon.

Opera is a central part of Clemens Schuldt’s music making, and he has conducted new productions of Bellini’s Norma, Gluck’s Armide, Gounod’s Faust and Verdi’s Rigoletto as Conductor in Residence with the Staatstheater Mainz. Elsewhere he led a new production of Gounod´s Faust at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann at the Theatre Osnabrück and Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Theater Gelsenkirchen. In 2019 Schuldt leads a production of Mozart´s Così fan tutte with the Munich Chamber Orchestra in the Prinzregententheater in Munich, and 2020 he will make his debut at Garsington Opera with Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto.