Born in Regensburg, Germany in 1983, Martin Wettges studied conducting with Prof. BRUNO WEIL at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, with MARK GIBSON at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA) and at the prestigious University of music and performing arts in Vienna (Austria) with Prof. UROŠ LAJOVIC.

He received scholarships from the German Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), the University of Cincinnati, the Mark-Lothar-Stiftung and the Richard-Wagner-Foundation, Bayreuth.
Wettges has conducted major orchestras, including the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Peru in Lima, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Munich Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, the Coburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pro-Arte Orchester Wien, the CCM Philharmonia Orchestra Cincinnati and the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra, where he is regular guest conductor. The Cape Philharmonic Orchestra invited him to conduct the season opening concert at the Cape Town City Hall in 2011.

He conducts at the Opera house in Leipzig (Il turco in Italia) and took charge as music director of new productions at the Graz opera house (Rigoletto), at the Munich Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (BRITTEN: Noye’s Fludde), at the opera house of Karlstad, Sweden (Rigoletto), the Coburg State Theatre (Les pêcheurs de perles), at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding (La Traviata), and at the Young Artists Festival in Bayreuth (world premiere of WANG AI QUN: Dream of the red chamber).

Wettges served as assistant conductor for the Deutsche Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin, the Münchner Biennale and as a repetiteur for the Freies Landestheater Bayern, the Orpheus Ensemble and the International Opera Studio Merano (Italy), where he started his conducting career. Being chorus director of the Munich Prinzregententheater since 2006, he worked for maestro ULF SCHIRMER, the Neue Münchner Hofkapelle, the Munich Radio Orchestra and the opera theatres of Ingolstadt and Bayreuth as well as with the childrens choir of the Bavarian State Opera, among others.

Together with his long-time stage associates, the director TOBIAS KRATZER and the stage designer RAINER SELLMAIER, Wettges won the ring.award 08 as music director for a production of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the opera house in Graz, Austria.

In 2008 he was appointed lecturer of orchestral conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich. There he is moreover music director for the annual production of the opera department in 2010/11 (Alcina, performed on period instruments).