Jörg Halubek is an internationally renown conductor, harpsichordist, and organist. After studying church music, organ, and harpsichord in Stuttgart and Freiburg, he deepened his expertise in historical performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon. He is currently Professor of Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts and Artistic Director of the International Handel Academy in Karlsruhe. In 2004, he won the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig and founded the Stuttgart baroque orchestra Il Gusto Barocco in 2008, with which he has established his own baroque concert series in Stuttgart since 2020.
His world premiere recording of the baroque opera Adonis by Johann Sigismund Kusser was released in 2024 and also staged at the opera festival in Schwetzingen. He has conducted at the Komische Oper Berlin, the National Theatre Mannheim, the Handel Festival in Halle, and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, working with directors such as Harry Kupfer, Calixto Bieito, and Lorenzo Fioroni. He made his debut at Lucerne Theater in 2024 with Vivaldi’s Il Giustino and returned in 2025 for a double bill of Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero and Zelenka’s Requiem. In May 2025, he conducted a staged performance of Johann Christian Bach’s cantata Amor vincitore at the Schwetzingen Festival. At Theater Basel, he conducted Haydn’s The Creation and Die Zauberflöte, with which he is set to return to Basel in the 2025/26 season.
