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Jörg Halubek is an internationally renowned conductor, harpsichordist and organist who specialises in early music. After studying church music, organ and harpsichord in Stuttgart and Freiburg, he deepened his knowledge of historical performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon. He is currently Professor of Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Stuttgart University of Music and Artistic Director of the International Handel Academy in Karlsruhe.

In addition to his work as a conductor, Jörg Halubek has been active as a harpsichordist and organist in Germany and abroad since winning the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2004. In 2019, he launched his multimedia project “Bach Organ Landscapes”, with a complete recording of Bach's organ works on original instruments - and locations.

In recent years, he has conducted various opera productions, including at renowned opera houses and festivals such as the Komische Oper Berlin, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Staatstheater Kassel, the Basel Theatre, the Handel Festival Halle and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. He has worked with leading directors such as Harry Kupfer, Calixto Bieito and Lorenzo Fioroni. He maintains a close collaboration with the Mannheim National Theatre as part of the Monteverdi cycle, which will continue in 2026 with a production of “L'Orfeo” after The Homecoming of Ulysses, The Coronation of Poppea, Monteverdi's Vespers of the Virgin Mary and the madrigal evening “Ombra e Luce”. Further highlights include his engagements as soloist in Handel's Organ Concerto in B flat major HWV 295 with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and an invitation to the Ansbach Bach Week with an orchestrated interpretation of Bach's “Art of Fugue”. 

In 2008, he founded the Stuttgart baroque orchestra il Gusto Barocco, with which he has established his own baroque series in Stuttgart since 2020. A trademark of his work is the rediscovery and performance of forgotten operas and works and is documented with various recordings: “Cleofida, Queen of India” in an arrangement of Handel's “Poro” by Georg Philipp Telemann, Monteverdi's “Marienvesper”, Johann David Heinichen's “Flavio Crispo”, Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello's “Tisbe”. 

The world premiere recording of the forgotten baroque opera “Adonis” by Johann Sigismund Kusser, which was released at the beginning of 2024, marks a new rediscovery. In November 2024, the work also celebrated its premiere on the opera stage, in the Rococo Theatre at the baroque festival “Winter in Schwetzingen”. 

Halubek's international activities have also taken him to Lucerne Theatre, where he made his debut in 2024 with Vivaldi's “Giustino”. In March 2025, he will conduct the short opera “Il prigioniero” by Luigi Dallapiccola and Zelenka's “Requiem in D major” in a double bill entitled “Requiem for a Prisoner”. Another highlight of the season will be the staged performance of Johann Christian Bach's cantata “Amor vincitore” at the Schwetzingen Festival in May 2025.

The season will be rounded off with two album releases: an orchestrated version of Bach's “Art of the Fugue” and the opera “L'Ercole amante” by Antonio Bembo, which was premiered with great success in Stuttgart and at the Early Music Festival in Herne in 2023.

Artist Website

www.halubek.com 

All about the exciting project "Bach. The Works for Organ" here:
www.halubek.com/bach/

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Artist Manager
 
 
 
 
Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net 
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A contemplative double evening in Lucerne
‘Requiem for a Prisoner’ - a juxtaposition of two short operas, Il prigioniero by Luigi Dallapiccola and the Requiem by Jan Dismas Zelenka, on the subject of human dignity. This double bill will be performed for the first time on 16 March 2025 under the musical direction of Jörg Halubek at the Lucerne Theatre.

Further information and performance dates:
luzernertheater.ch 

Jörg Halubek conducts Kusser's baroque masterpiece Adonis in Schwetzingen 
On the 23rd of November 2024, Jörg Halubek will conduct this year's premiere of the Heidelberg Winter Opera at the Rokkokotheater Schwetzingen: Johann Sigismund Kusser's Adonis. Jörg Halubek has already performed Adonis with his ensemble Il Gusto Barocco in the Liederhalle Stuttgart and brought it to life; the live recording of this successful performance was released by cpo in a world premiere recording in 2024. In spring 2025, Lucerne audiences can then look forward to Jörg Halubek performing Zelenka's Requiem in D major and Il Prigioniero by Dallapiccola at Lucerne Theatre.

Further information and performance dates:
www.theaterheidelberg.de 
 

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