Wolfgang Seeliger is one of the most well known and sought-after conductors in Hesse region of Germany. He trained with Hans Swarowski and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who exerted an intense influence on him with his ideas of interpreting music as a language. He completed his education with the conductors Kyrill Konrashin, Franco Ferrera and Herbert von Karajan.

In 1983 Wolfgang Seeliger assistant to Sir Colin Davis, but his musical personality was most greatly formed by his six years as assistant to Leonard Bernstein in Germany.

With the concert choir of Darmstadt, founded in 1977, he has created an ensemble that makes it possible for him to continuously build a musical body in accordance with his ideas. He also conducts the chamber and philharmonic orchestras of Darmstadt.