Jörg Halubek, born in Beckum, works as a conductor, harpsichordist and organist with a focus on historically informed performance practice.

In 2008 he founded the baroque orchestra il Gusto Barocco and has served as its artistic director ever since. He is Professor of Organ and Historical Keyboard Instruments at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, where he also directs the Maestro al Cembalo degree programme. In addition, he is Artistic Director of the International Handel Academy Karlsruhe.

In the 2025/26 season he conducts Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Theater Basel and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at Nationaltheater Mannheim. In the Stuttgart series Metamorphosen presented by il Gusto Barocco, he directs Vivaldi’s Bajazet as an opera pasticcio and a version of Dafne after Peri and Gagliano. Further appearances include Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, the SWR Festspiele and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart (with his students). In 2026 he will be Artist in Residence at the Schwetzingen SWR Festspiele, where he will present, among other projects, a Festa Barocca dedicated to music around 1600.

In 2024 the CD of Johann Sigismund Kusser’s rediscovered opera Adonis was released (cpo); in 2023 he gave the world premiere of Antonia Bembo’s L’Ercole amante (also cpo). At the Schwetzingen SWR Festspiele he conducted the staged premiere of Johann Christian Bach’s Amor vincitore.

As an organist he won First Prize at the 2004 International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. His project Bach Organ Landscapes records Bach’s complete organ works on historic organs of the Bach regions; the edition comprises ten double CDs on the Berlin Classics label and will be completed in March 2026.

Previous engagements have taken him to, among others, Komische Oper Berlin, Halle Handel Festival, Theater Basel, Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, and to orchestras such as Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and La Cetra Barockorchester Basel. In 2019 he conducted the first historically informed and staged Handel opera production in Ukraine with Open Opera Ukraine (Acis and Galatea).

Studies: church music and organ in Stuttgart and Freiburg with Jon Laukvik, harpsichord with Robert Hill, and historically informed performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Jesper B. Christensen and Andrea Marcon.