studied conducting with Sergiu Celibidache, Constantin Bugeanu and Jorma Panula. Further important impulses he received through the conducting school of Viennese legend Hans Swarowsky. He also studied Viola with Berta Volmer and Reiner Schmidt.

For years he has been dedicated to advancing and supporting young musicians, be it as an Artistic Director of EMIV and Wiener Meisterkurse since 2016, having served as Vice Artistic Director and Head of Organisation of Wiener Meisterkurse already since 2006.

He has held master courses in conducting at Wiener Meisterkurse as well as in Germany, Hungary, Italy and México. From 2013 - 2018  he was Guest Professor for conducting at ARTS2, École supérieure des Arts de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in Mons, Belgium.

He appeared as guest conductor with the Kremerata Baltica, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Brno Philharmonic, Orquesta sinfónica de Xalapa, Mexico City Philharmonic, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Orquesta Sinfónica de Málaga, Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, amongst others.

Besides the symphonic standard repertoire, his passion belongs to the symphonic œvre from Haydn to the 20th century. Moreover, he is constantly seeking after re-discovering orchestral and opera masterworks of composers being lost or forgotten through the turmoil of the first half of the 20th century, such as Egon Wellesz, Ernst Krenek, Edmund von Borck, Erwin Schulhoff and Rudi Stephan. In March 2018 he conducted as American first performances Egon Wellesz’ Symphony No. 1. and in February 2019 'Prosperos Beschwörungen' of this eminent composer.

Jörg Birhance is also an active researcher and published his study ‘The Observation of Form: The form analysis method of Constantin Bugeanu in reference to the 1st and 5th Symphonies of Egon Wellesz’ with academia.edu.

Günther Theuring began his musical training as a choirboy in the Vienna Boys’ Choir. Later on, he studied conducting with Ferdinand Grossman (choir) and Hans Swarowski (Orchestra) at the former Vienna Music Academy. He has been the condcutor of Vienna Academy Chamber Choir since 1955.

in 1959 he founded the Wiener Jeunesse Choir (Vienna Youth Choir), in close collaboration with honorary members Paul Hindemith and Leonard Bernstein. The choir has recorded Bernstein’s complete vocal-instrumental works under the direction of the composer.

In 1971 Günther Theuring founded the “Ensemble Contraste, Wien” which developed a reputation for the interpretation of the music of the “Second Viennese School”.

Günther Theuring has been active as a conductor since 1960, and has conducted Leipzig Rundfunkchor, the ORF Choir Vienna, the Bayrische Rundfunk Choir, the Budapest Rundfunk Choir, the Berlin Rundfunk Choir, the Choir of the Danish Broadcasting Company, Copenhagen, the Wiener Singakademie, the Slovenski Komorni Zbor, the Frankfurt Rundfunk Choir, and the Choir of the Slovenian Broadcasting Company Laibach.

He has been a guest conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Orchestra of the Milan Scala, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum-Orchestra Salzburg, the Orchestra of the Danish Broadcasting Company, the ORF Symphony Orchestra, and the Tonkünstler-Orchester.

In 1973 he was appointed as a full professor of a conducting class for choir-symphonic repertoire at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna.

In 1975 he founded the Vienna Master Courses and has served as its artistic director for lifetime, passing it on to Jörg Birhance in the weeks before his passing.