Jörg Halubek specializes in Early Music, primarily in the field of historical keyboard instruments and High and Late Baroque opera.
As a conductor, Halubek is particularly interested in the dramatic topicality of old material. It is therefore important to him to invest in collaboration with directors and to bring flexibility to dramatic concepts. Understanding the works from the spirit of their creation forms the basis for him to exploit the freedom of early music for new interpretations - both musically and scenically. Samples of this work have been seen in recent years at the Komische Oper Berlin, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Staatstheater Kassel, the Handel Festival Halle, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Wuppertal Opera House and the Liederhalle Stuttgart, where Halubek has worked with directors such as Harry Kupfer, Calixto Bieito, Lorenzo Fioroni, Markus Bothe, Stephan Müller and Jochen Biganzoli.
With Il Gusto Barocco, the baroque orchestra he founded in Stuttgart in 2008, he recently released on CD: “Cleofida”, an arrangement of Handel's “Poro” by Georg Philipp Telemann, and the opera “Adonis” by Johann Sigismund Kusser, which he composed around 1700 during his time as Kapellmeister at the ducal court in Stuttgart (both in co-production by SWR2 and cpo). His most recent recording, “Sonata & Concertos”, followed in April 2024 and is the fourth album in the Bach series launched in 2021 by Berlin Classics.
In addition to his work as a conductor, Jörg Halubek has been active as a harpsichordist and organist in Germany and abroad since winning the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2004. His expertise in dealing with early music is demonstrated by his award-winning recordings of works for keyboard instruments and violin by Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2016 and 2014 respectively) with the baroque violinist Leila Schayegh.
In 2019, he launched his multimedia project “Bach Organ Landscapes”, a complete recording of Bach's organ works on original instruments with additional material accessible online.
The professor of historical keyboard instruments at the Stuttgart University of Music studied church music, organ and harpsichord in Stuttgart and Freiburg with Jon Laukvik and Robert Hill. At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he specialized in historical performance practice with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon.