Jakub Klecker
Jakub Klecker is one of the fastest-rising Czech conductors. In the 2026/27 season, his engagements include a semi-staged production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar in Zlín in September, with the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic and actors from the Slovak Theatre in Uherské Hradiště, concerts with the Hradec Králové Philharmonic and the Prague Philharmonia, among others, as well as return engagements at the National Theatre Brno and the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava.
Jakub Klecker is artistically associated primarily with the Janáček Opera of the National Theatre in Brno, where he has led a number of successful productions, such as The Plays of Mary (Martinů), Tosca and La bohème (Puccini), The Kiss (Smetana), The Devil and Kate (Dvořák), Così fan tutte (Mozart), Aida (Verdi) and Dvořák's Jacobin – which was broadcast live worldwide via the Opera Vision platform. Since 2010, he has also been working intensively with the Opera of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, where he served as music director from 2015 to 2020. Here too, he has conducted a number of notable titles, including the opera – the film Les Trois Souhaits ou les Vicissitudes de la vie and Juliette (Martinů), Brandenburgers in Bohemia and The Secret (Smetana), La clemenza di Tito (Mozart), Otello (Verdi), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Shostakovich), Rusalka (Dvořák), The Fate (Janáček), and in recent years The Broken Jug and The Emperor of Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann and The Charlatan by Pavel Haas. Jakub Klecker has also collaborated with the National Theatre in Prague (e.g. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Bizet's Carmen, Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen). On the tour with the Janáček Opera Brno to Oman in May 2014, he conducted Dvořák's Rusalka, which was performed on the Arabian Peninsula for the first time. In January 2013, he debuted with Verdi's Aida at the State Theatre in Nuremberg and in January 2017 he made his debut with Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Wrocław Opera. He has almost 70 opera or ballet titles in his repertoire.
Jakub Klecker is also passionate about symphonic works. In 2019–2022 he was chief conductor of the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc. He has collaborated with most Czech orchestras (Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Brno Philharmonic, Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, Hradec Králové Philharmonic). He has performed with the Udine Symphony Orchestra and the Jena Philharmonic in Germany and in 2007 and 2009, and led the Brno Philharmonic on a concert tour of Japan. He has repeatedly performed at the Janáček Brno Festival, the Prague Spring Festival, Smetana's Litomyšl and Rheingau Musik Festival.
Jakub Klecker has been teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music in Brno since 2014, where he has been the head of the Conducting and Opera Department since 2022. He studied conducting with Jiří Bělohlávek and Tomáš Koutník at the Prague Academy of Music.
2026/27 Season
The artists is represented by Alena Kunertová, Nachtigall Artists
tel: +420 602 219 611, e-mail: a.kunertova@nachtigallartists.cz
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