Jörg Widmann is one of the most impressive and versatile artists of his generation. His performances during the 2023/24 season continue to demonstrate all aspects of his work, as a clarinettist, conductor and composer. He is composer in residence with the Berlin Philharmonic and with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, guest conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, associate conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, creative partner of the Deutsches Radio Philharmonie, artistic partner of Sinfonietta Riga and artist in focus at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. He expands his activity as a conductor through his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, among other engagements.
He also gives concerts at the Schubertiades in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonie de Paris and at the Salzburg Festival, with longstanding chamber music partners such as Clemens Hagen, Carolin Widmannn, Nicolas Altstaedt, Sarah Aristidou, Denis Kozhukhin and the Hagen Quartet.
He studied composition with Kay Westermann, Wilfried Hiller, Hans Werner Henze and Wolfgang Rihm. Conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding, Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann, Andris Nelsons and Simon Rattle regularly perform his music, while orchestras such as the Vienna, Berlin and New York Philharmonics as well as the Orchestre de Paris, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra included his music in their repertory. His new compositions performed this season are Schumannliebe for baritone and ensemble, with Matthias Goerne, and a horn concerto with Stefan Dohr, commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle.
Jörg Widmann has held the composition chair at the Barenboim-Said Academy since 2017. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg and the Mainz Academy of Science and Literature. In 2023 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
