Jörg Halubek is a specialist in early music as conductor, harpsichordist and organist. In the coming season, he will take over the musical direction for the production of Haydn’s “Creation” at the Theater Basel with La Cetra Barockorchester. Other highlights include his engagements as soloist in Händel’s Organ Concerto in B-flat major HWV 295 “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, as well as serving as artistic director of the International Händel Academy Karlsruhe, like last year. He will also return to the Ansbach Bach Week with il Gusto Barocco, the ensemble he founded, with an orchestrated interpretation of Bach’s “Art of the Fugue”. He has conducted in recent years at the Komische Oper Berlin, the National Theatre Mannheim, the State Theatre Kassel, the Händel Festival in Halle, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Wuppertal Opera House and at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, among other appearances. He has worked at these venues with, among others, directors Harry Kupfer, Calixto Bieito, Lorenzo Fioroni, Markus Bothe, Stephan Müller and Jochen Biganzoli. Besides working as a conductor, Jörg Halubek has been active as harpsichordist and organist both in Germany and abroad since winning the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2004. In 2019 he started his multimedia project “Bach Organ Landscapes”, a complete recording of Bach’s organ works on original instruments with additional material accessible online.