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Conductor and concert organist Artistic Director Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Akademie & Chor Hamburg and International Bachfest Hamburg
Hansjörg Albrecht is one of the few artists who regularly performs internationally as both a conductor and concert organist. As a conductor, he is internationally renowned above all as a passionate specialist in Bach and the opulent music of the 18th century, but as an all-round musician he consistently follows his own path – between archive and new creation, with an extensive repertoire ranging from Bruckner, Wagner, Mahler and Strauss to Olivier Messiaen, numerous world premieres and a penchant for forgotten composers such as the Bach sons, Hans Rott, Walter Braunfels and Mieczysław Weinberg. His organ transcriptions have established him as a specialist among virtuosos of his instrument. Since the 2023/24 season, he has been artistic director of the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Academy in Hamburg, as well as the choir of the same name and the annual International Bach Festival in Hamburg. He is also working to establish Hamburg as an international Bach city and to build a new platform for the Sturm und Drang music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his brothers. He also has long-standing collaborations with the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, the Russian Chamber Orchestra Moscow, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hamburg and Munich Symphony Orchestras.
Albrecht succeeded the legendary Karl Richter as director of the Munich Bach Choir and the Munich Bach Orchestra from 2005 to 2023, leading the ensemble to new international acclaim with an extensive concert schedule. Albrecht was also principal guest conductor at the Teatro Petruzzelli Bari from 2021 to 2023. His concert engagements take him to music centres such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing and New York, where he regularly works with internationally renowned artists and orchestras – currently including Jan Vogler, Christian Gerhaher, Michael Volle, Sergei Nakarjakov, Reinhold Friedrich, Lucas & Arthur Jussen and Mikhail Pletnev, orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Halle, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou and Suzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana Palermo, Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the Dresdner Kapellsolisten, as well as original sound ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, NDR Barock, the Dresden Festival Orchestra, the Handel Festival Orchestra Halle, Lautten Compagney Berlin and the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra. Albrecht has conducted prestigious Mozart opera productions at venues including the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and the new Dubai Opera House, as well as ballet projects with the dance companies of Marguerite Donlon and Boris Eifman. In addition to the world premiere of the reconstruction of J.S. Bach's missing St. Luke Passion in Hamburg in 2024, he has numerous concert engagements as conductor and soloist in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, France, Croatia, Scandinavia and many times to China, where he will perform as organist with the Nanjing Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra Beijing under Myung Whun Chung. Hansjörg Albrecht is a member of the board of the New Bach Society Leipzig. He is also artistic director of the International Online Organ Festival (IOOF), which will be held worldwide for the first time in 2022 under the patronage of UNESCO, and of the 99th Bach Festival of the New Bach Society in Munich in 2025. He has released well over 40 CDs as conductor and organist on the Oehms Classics label and has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award, among other honours. In 2024, Albrecht completed the world's first complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies as organ transcriptions, which he has been recording since 2020 for the OehmsClassics label at the original European venues. He was subsequently named one of the leading Bruckner interpreters by the classical music magazine Crescendo (2024 annual edition).
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