Klauspeter Seibel, Music Advisor and Conductor of The American Sinfonietta, is the past Resident Conductor of the Frankfurt and Hamburg Operas and currently Resident Conductor of the Dresden Opera.  He is also in his eighth season as Music Director of the Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans. 

Previous Music Directorships include the Freiburg Opera and Philharmonic, the Nuremberg Symphony, the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, and the Kiel Opera and Philharmonic. He also served as Professor of Conducting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg. Mr. Seibel has guest conducted the Deutsche Oper and Deutsche Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin, the Dresden Opera, Hamburg Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Zurich Opera, New Orleans Opera and Opera Colorado, among others. On tour with the Hamburg Opera, he conducted highly acclaimed performances of "Romeo and Juliet" in Israel and of "Wozzeck" and "Samson and Dalilah" in Moscow. Mr. Seibel has also appeared with the symphony orchestras of Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Bratislava, Copenhagen and Reykjavik. Mr. Seibel has conducted a number of United States orchestras including the symphonies of Colorado, Charlotte, Eugene, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Omaha, Spokane, and San Diego.  He has also been conductor of the Chautauqua Festival and the Texas Music Festival.  Upcoming US engagements include Grand Rapids and Kansas City (5th time).

Klauspeter Seibel conducts a vast number of contemporary works, in addition to the standard eighteenth and nineteenth century operatic and orchestral repertoire. He has recorded on Deutsche Grammophon, RBM, Colosseum and CPO. New productions include the world premiere recording of "Der Ring des Polykrates," an opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the first recording of orchestral works by Franz Lehár, both for the CPO label.

Born in Offenbach, Germany, Klauspeter Seibel studied piano, composition, conducting, flute and horn in Nuremberg and Munich. He made his conducting debut at the age of 21 at Munich's Theater am Gärtnerplatz. He was a prizewinner at the Malko Competition in Copenhagen and the Mitropoulos Competition in New York and recipient of the prestigious Richard Strauss Foundation Scholarship.  Maestro Seibel and his wife maintain homes in Hamburg and in New Orleans.