European Music Institute Vienna

Jörg Artistic Director and Conductor of WienSinfonietta, Artistic Director of European Music Institute Vienna and has served for many years Vice Artistic Director of Wiener Meisterkurse. From 2005-2011 he was Conductor and Music Director of “Blutenburg Kammerphilharmonie München” and “Opera Nymphenburg”.

Besides the symphonic standard repertoire, his passion and dedication belongs to the symphonic œuvre from Haydn to the 20th century and the operas of Mozart.

Jörg is also 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, whose 1st symphony he conducted as American firts-performance in 2018, as well as Ernst Krenek, Edmund von Borck, Erwin Schulhoff and Rudi Stephan.

As a sought-after conducting teacher he has recently published his fundamental study "The Observation of Form" with academia.edu and has held master courses in conducting at Wiener Meisterkurse as well as in Germany, Hungary, Italy and México. Currently he is Guest Professor for conducting at ARTS2, École supérieure des Arts de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in Mons, Belgium.

WienSinfonietta is committed to linking works of classical music with works of modern music and thus to finding the roots of the present in the past, and the traces of the past in the present.

Thus we begin at the time when Viennese music became genuine Viennese Classics - and here primarily with Joseph Haydn. His rich symphonic oeuvre is one of our artistic core areas.

The second focus of our work begins with Viennese Modernism and its traces, some of which have been lost in the 20th century in the European world catastrophies. Some of them have remained lost, some of them reappear, to the present day, in which the Vienna Sinfonietta seeks to trace all theseartistic movements and take them up. And we also love Johann and Josef Strauss...

WienSinfonietta is an internationally oriented orchestra consisting of members of the Vienna Orchestras and Vienna Freelance Musicians.