Concert

Jörg Halubek’s concert work centres on historically informed performance as an artistic method across Baroque and early Classical repertoire, with a particular focus on Johann Sebastian Bach. His projects combine research-based interpretation with dramaturgical thinking, long-term artistic development and stylistic coherence. Concert programmes are conceived not as isolated events but as part of broader artistic trajectories, often developed over several seasons and within long-term collaborations with ensembles and orchestras.

A central strand of his concert activity is his work with his own ensemble il Gusto Barocco, which serves as an artistic laboratory for historically informed performance at the highest level. With the ensemble, Halubek has realised a wide range of Bach projects, including staged cantata performances, complete cycles of the Brandenburg Concertos, secular cantatas and a dramaturgically framed performance of The Art of Fugue. His Bach work also includes large-scale sacred repertoire such as the St John Passion, presented with newly researched parameters of performance practice. Selected Bach projects have been documented in recordings released by Berlin Classics.

Alongside his work with specialised ensembles, Halubek regularly collaborates with modern orchestras, transferring historically informed principles into contemporary ensembles and fostering stylistic clarity, ensemble communication and expressive precision. His work in this field is based on a chamber-musical approach to orchestral playing, a shared language of articulation and phrasing and a historically grounded understanding of musical rhetoric. He has worked with orchestras including the Sinfonieorchester Basel, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Wuppertaler Sinfonieorchester, the Nationaltheater Mannheim Orchestra and the Händelfestspielorchester Halle.

Concertante opera projects form a further core element of his concert profile. With il Gusto Barocco, Halubek has realised numerous concert performances and rediscoveries of Baroque opera, including works by Handel, Johann Christian Bach, Antonia Bembo, Johann David Heinichen and Johann Sigismund Kusser. Several of these projects have been documented in recordings released by cpo. Current and recent concert projects include reconstructions of early operatic works such as Jacopo Peri’s La Dafne and performances of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.

His concert work forms an integral part of his artistic profile and informs his operatic practice, combining historical research with contemporary performance culture and long-term artistic collaboration.