After private conducting lessons from Manfred Schreier and Thomas Ungar, he studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, with Nicolas Pasquet and Gunter Kahlert [de].
[1][2] As a guest conductor, he has worked with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the Tiroler Landesorchester Innsbruck, the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Landesjugendorchester Berlin the Nürnberger Symphoniker and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, amongst others.
In 2010, he received the Herrmann-Hildebrandt scholarship,[4] and in 2011, he won the special prize at the German conducting competition.
In the years from 2005 to 2011, Johannes Klumpp was awarded the highest support level of the Dirigentenforum of the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat).
In cooperation with the classic label Ars-Produktion, he published CDs and SA-CDs with works from composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber and Ignaz Pleyel.