The young conductor Tim Hüttemeister initially took trombone and piano lessons as a teenager and sang in various choirs. After studying conducting with Prof. David de Villiers (Folkwang University of the Arts) in Essen and majoring in music theory with Dr. Immanuel Ott and Prof. Dr. Markus Roth, he began his Bachelor's degree in orchestral conducting with Prof. Florian Ludwig at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, where he is now continuing his Master's studies. There he was also engaged as a permanent assistant to the university orchestra, most recently in the university production of Johann Strauss' “Die Fledermaus” under Prof. Fabio Vettraino and in the coming summer of 2025 by Prof. Alexander Hannemann in Mozart's “Don Giovanni”.
In 2023 and again in 2024, Hüttemeister conducted two different series of school concerts with the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, as well as several school and family concerts with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra since 2024 and also conducted Offenbach's one-act opera “Insel Tulipatan” at the Federal Academy for Young Music Theater in Rheinsberg Castle Theater in summer 2024.
Tim Hüttemeister assisted conductor Christoph Eschenbach, most recently in 2022 with Mahler's 2nd Symphony and in 2021 in a program with Brahms, Bialas and Haydn, and in 2022 with conductor Clemens Schuldt in works by Dvorak and Kapustin. In the summer of 2023, he was also assistant conductor with the Bundesjugendorchester and at the beginning of 2024 with the LJSO Hessen, where he conducted a concert with works by Elgar, Wagner and Duda.
In the winter semester 2024/2025, he conducted the Göttingen Academic Orchestra Association for the first time with works including Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony and works by Mahler and Rimsky-Korsakov and was subsequently appointed artistic director. The upcoming concerts for the summer semester now include works by Liszt and Wagner as well as lesser-known compositions by Franz Schreker and Karl Weigl. In recent years, he has also taken on several work phases of the Rhein-Ruhr-Philharmonie with works by Suk, Dvorak, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
During his studies, he gained orchestral experience conducting the Staatskapelle Halle, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, the Vogtlandphilharmonie Reichenbach, the Göttinger Sinfonieorchester, the philharmonic orchestra Hagen, the orchestras of the Theater Bremerhaven and the Landestheater Detmold, the Knabenchor Hannover and the Detmolder Kammerorchester. Hüttemeister has also conducted numerous amateur orchestras such as the Freie Sinfonieorchester Bielefeld and the Orchestergesellschaft Detmold.
Hüttemeister has completed master classes with Prof. Johannes Schlaefli, Prof. Nicolás Pasquet, Prof. Christoph Altstaedt and Tomáš Netopil, among others, with the Janáčkova Filharmonie Ostrava, Czech Republic. He has also worked with various international conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Hartmut Haenchen, Marek Janowski, Andrew Manze, Johannes Klumpp and Hermann Bäumer.
Tim Hüttemeister is involved in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition under the direction of Prof. Dr. Joachim Veit and was recently involved in new editions of Oberon and Euryanthe, but above all in Weber's Freischütz, the practical edition of which he will now edit independently. Hüttemeister is also a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Rhein-Sieg Region e.V. and was invited to sit in on rehearsals at the Bayreuth Festival in 2017.