Jörg Halubek
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Jörg Halubek is a conductor, harpsichordist and organist specialising in early music. One of his trademarks is reviving forgotten operas and other musical discoveries and performing them for the first time. In the 2024/25 season, he explored new KLANGRÄUME (sound spaces) together with the ensemble il Gusto Barocco as part of the Stuttgart series and in the Lake Constance region. The season was complemented by two album releases: J. S. Bach's “The Art of Fugue”, orchestrated for cornett, trombones, woodwinds, strings and organ, and a recording of the opera “L'Ercole amante” by Antonia Bembo (1640-1720).
The world premiere recording of the forgotten Baroque opera “Adonis” by Johann Sigismund Kusser (1669-1727), released in early 2024, marks another successful rediscovery. In November 2024, the work premiered at the Baroque festival “Winter in Schwetzingen” at the Rococo Theatre, directed by Guillermo Amaya and conducted by Jörg Halubek.
At the beginning of December 2024, he conducted a program of Mannheim court music dedicated to the music-loving Elector Carl Theodor von der Pfalz at the National Theatre Mannheim as part of the Musical Academy. The collaboration with the Lucerne Theatre, where Jörg Halubek made his debut in 2024, continued in 2025: a double bill entitled “Requiem for a Prisoner” in March juxtaposed the short opera “Il prigioniero” by Luigi Dallapiccola and Jan Dismas Zelenka's “Requiem in D major”. Another highlight of the season was the rediscovery of Johann Christian Bach's cantata “Amor vincitore”, which was performed as a staged one-act opera under his baton in May 2025 as part of the Schwetzingen Festival. The cast included baroque singing stars such as Julia Lezhneva and Maayan Licht. Jörg Halubek and il Gusto Barocco took part in the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival for the first time in 2025, where they presented the program “Il Generoso Cor” with soprano Suzanne Jerosme. In November, he returned to Theater Basel for the revival of Simon McBurney's acclaimed production of Mozart's “The Magic Flute”.
In the past, Jörg Halubek has conducted at the Theater Basel, the Handel Festival in Halle and the Komische Oper Berlin, where he performed Handel's opera “Poro, Re del'Indie” directed by Harry Kupfer (2019). At the National Theatre Mannheim, he participated in the realisation of the Monteverdi cycle: “The Return of Ulysses” (2017), directed by Markus Bothe, was followed by “The Coronation of Poppea” (2018), directed by Lorenzo Fioroni. In the same year, he presented a staged version of “Marienvesper” (2018) together with Spanish director Calixto Bieito. The madrigal evening “Ombra e Luce” (2021), also with Markus Bothe, continued the cycle, which will end in 2026 with “L’Orfeo”.
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. He is professor of organ and historical keyboard instruments at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, where he studied church music, organ and harpsichord in Stuttgart and Freiburg with Jon Laukvik and Robert Hill. At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he specialised in historical performance practice with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon. His large-scale complete recording of Bach's organ works will be completed in March 2026: the ninth of a total of ten double albums, “Naumburg & Störmthal”, was recently released. Prior to this, he published concerts for organ and ensemble transcribed by himself with il Gusto Barocco under the title “Sonate & Concertos” (2024).
The world premiere recording of the forgotten Baroque opera “Adonis” by Johann Sigismund Kusser (1669-1727), released in early 2024, marks another successful rediscovery. In November 2024, the work premiered at the Baroque festival “Winter in Schwetzingen” at the Rococo Theatre, directed by Guillermo Amaya and conducted by Jörg Halubek.
At the beginning of December 2024, he conducted a program of Mannheim court music dedicated to the music-loving Elector Carl Theodor von der Pfalz at the National Theatre Mannheim as part of the Musical Academy. The collaboration with the Lucerne Theatre, where Jörg Halubek made his debut in 2024, continued in 2025: a double bill entitled “Requiem for a Prisoner” in March juxtaposed the short opera “Il prigioniero” by Luigi Dallapiccola and Jan Dismas Zelenka's “Requiem in D major”. Another highlight of the season was the rediscovery of Johann Christian Bach's cantata “Amor vincitore”, which was performed as a staged one-act opera under his baton in May 2025 as part of the Schwetzingen Festival. The cast included baroque singing stars such as Julia Lezhneva and Maayan Licht. Jörg Halubek and il Gusto Barocco took part in the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival for the first time in 2025, where they presented the program “Il Generoso Cor” with soprano Suzanne Jerosme. In November, he returned to Theater Basel for the revival of Simon McBurney's acclaimed production of Mozart's “The Magic Flute”.
In the past, Jörg Halubek has conducted at the Theater Basel, the Handel Festival in Halle and the Komische Oper Berlin, where he performed Handel's opera “Poro, Re del'Indie” directed by Harry Kupfer (2019). At the National Theatre Mannheim, he participated in the realisation of the Monteverdi cycle: “The Return of Ulysses” (2017), directed by Markus Bothe, was followed by “The Coronation of Poppea” (2018), directed by Lorenzo Fioroni. In the same year, he presented a staged version of “Marienvesper” (2018) together with Spanish director Calixto Bieito. The madrigal evening “Ombra e Luce” (2021), also with Markus Bothe, continued the cycle, which will end in 2026 with “L’Orfeo”.
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. He is professor of organ and historical keyboard instruments at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, where he studied church music, organ and harpsichord in Stuttgart and Freiburg with Jon Laukvik and Robert Hill. At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he specialised in historical performance practice with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon. His large-scale complete recording of Bach's organ works will be completed in March 2026: the ninth of a total of ten double albums, “Naumburg & Störmthal”, was recently released. Prior to this, he published concerts for organ and ensemble transcribed by himself with il Gusto Barocco under the title “Sonate & Concertos” (2024).