Ann-Katrin Stöcker studied piano, vocal coaching, and conducting in Frankfurt, as well as accompaniment, song interpretation, and chamber music at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She is a multiple national prizewinner of the “Jugend musiziert” competition, was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association, and received support from Yehudi Menuhin’s “Live Music Now” foundation. In addition to an active concert career as a soloist and chamber musician, she was engaged as a répétiteur at Theater Augsburg, the Staatstheater Braunschweig, and Oper Frankfurt while still a student. From 2012 to 2014, she worked at the Staatstheater Braunschweig as a répétiteur with conducting duties and as assistant to the General Music Director; in 2013, she made her conducting debut there with Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Since 2014, she has been a répétiteur and deputy head of musical studies at Zurich Opera House, where she has conducted productions such as “Gold!”, “Konrad or the Child out of the Tin Can,” “Coraline,” “Odyssey,” “Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver,” and “The Land of Smiles.” In 2020, she served as Assistant Conductor at the Bayreuth Festival, and in 2022, she conducted “Così fan tutte” at the Jerusalem Lyric Opera Festival. She collaborates regularly with Simone Young on projects with the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne and the Orchestre de Paris and remains active as a pianist and chamber music partner.