Lutz Koppetsch learned to play the saxophone at an early age at the Krefeld Music School with Laszlo Dömötör. He then studied saxophone in classical music with Arno Bornkamp at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In Paris, he continued his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique with Claude Delangle and in the class of Vicent David at the Conservatoire National de Region in Versailles.

Lutz Koppetsch has won prizes at international level, including at the ARD International Music Competition. He was the first German semi-finalist in the world's most important saxophone competition "Adolphe Sax" in Dinant, Belgium. He was a member of the German Music Council's Federal Selection of Concerts by Young Artists and was a scholarship holder of the German Music Competition and the German Foundation for Musical Life. His studies in France were supported by the ZEIT Foundation. As a teenager, he won first prize in the "Jugend Musiziert" competition four times in chamber music formations and as a soloist and was already giving concerts in Asia, South and North America and Africa.

Lutz Koppetsch is much in demand as a guest musician with orchestras such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. As a member of a wide variety of ensembles and chamber music formations, he moves between all styles of classical music. He has played at almost all the important festivals in and around Germany, performed in Asia, America and Africa and released a wide range of recordings, some of which have received awards such as the German Record Critics' Award or the ECHO Klassik.
Lutz Koppetsch is also characterized by musical flexibility and stylistic openness as a soloist. With music ranging from Alexander Glazunow to Philipp Glass and Luciano Berio to Klezmer and John Williams, he has performed with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Essen and Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestras and the BR Radio Orchestra, among others.

Lutz Koppetsch gained his first teaching experience as a teenager. Before he began teaching full-time at the University of Music Würzburg, he briefly taught at the Music Academy of the German-speaking Community in Belgium. He has given master classes in many European countries, in the USA, Japan and America.
His focus is on continuity, independence and the strengthening of intrinsic motivation and individual strengths, while at the same time developing a solid technical foundation. His aim is to make a fundamental contribution to the long-term professional satisfaction of his students.
In terms of sound, he seeks to connect with the woodwind instruments of the classical symphony orchestra. On this basis, there are a variety of teaching opportunities to strengthen ensemble playing skills such as chamber music, saxophone quartet, saxophone ensemble, orchestra and the Ensemble for New Music.

Lutz Koppetsch lives with his family in Würzburg.