The conductor Judith Kubitz is a Sorbian born in Bautzen, studied in Weimar, Paris and at the Royal Academy of Music London with Gunter Kahlert, Colin Metters, Sir Colin Davis and Sir Charles Mackarras. In 2002 she was nominated as a finalist in the International Donatella Flick Conducting Competition. She was a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Bank Foundation "Akademie Musiktheater heute" and was supported by the German Music Council as part of the "Maestros of Tomorrow" program. After starting her career as a choirmaster at the Staatstheater Kassel, she was engaged as First Kapellmeister at the Staatstheaters Cottbus and Schwerin before being appointed conductor at the Philharmonie Baden-Baden in 2013.

Under her musical direction, the Berlin Lake Festival took place in 2011 and 2012 together with the directors Katharina Thalbach and Volker Schlöndorff. In addition, she has conducted music theatre productions at the Komische Oper Berlin, the Konzerttheater Bern, the Regensburg Theatre, the Gerhart Hauptmann Theatre Görlitz, the Baden-Baden Easter Festival and the Rheinsberg and Spree Opera Festivals. After her debut with the Het Residenten Orkest in The Hague, Judith Kubitz took over the musical direction of the opera production of Handel's opera "Radamisto", a cooperation with the "Dutch National Opera Academy", in 2019.

Invitations as a concert conductor have taken her to the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Braunschweig State Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic and the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, as well as to orchestras in France, Poland and the Czech Republic, South Africa, Latin America, China and Japan. The conductor has a regular collaboration with the Sinfonietta Dresden and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic. Judith Kubitz has also been conducting the Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam for 10 years, with which she also accompanied the finalists of the Dutch Cello Competition in 2016. In spring 2022, she was invited to lead a master class for students of the conducting classes there.

Since 2021 she has performed with the Orquesta de Córdoba/Spain, the Joensuu Symphony Orchestra/Finland, the Sinfonietta Dresden, the Detmold Chamber Orchestra, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, the Palatinate Philharmonic Orchestra Kaiserslautern, the Capitol Symphony Orchestra Offenbach and the Philharmonie Baden-Baden. On the occasion of the 200th birthday of the Sorbian composer Korla Awgust Kocor, performances of an arrangement of his biblical oratorio "Israelowa zrudoba trošt" were recorded in October 2022. After "Serbski rekwiem" and "Serbski kwas", this is the third CD production of a Sorbian choral symphony under her direction.

On 5 October 2024, she conducted the festive concert of the German Federal Amateur Orchestra on the occasion of its 100th anniversary in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie.