Jörn Hinnerk Andresen

Univ.-Prof. of Choral Conducting⋅Conducting Department

Jörn Hinnerk Andresen is Professor of Choral Conducting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and director of the Mozarteum vocalEnsemble. Born in Schleswig-Holstein, he studied conducting, piano and harpsichord in Dresden and Amsterdam. After working as choir director and conductor in Zwickau and Koblenz, he joined the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich in 2008 and the Semperoper Dresden in 2015. Guest engagements have taken him to the English National Opera, the Bavarian State Opera and the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, among others.

For many years, Andresen has been a regular participant in the Salzburg Festival, where he works with the Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Saxon State Opera Chorus and the Bach Choir Salzburg. He is also a sought-after guest conductor with renowned radio and concert choirs, including the Bavarian Radio Choir, the MDR Radio Choir, the Danish Radio Choir, the RIAS Chamber Choir, Vokal Nord Tromsø, the Chœur de Radio France and the Salzburg Bach Society.

A particular focus of his artistic work is the rediscovery and cultivation of the music of the 17th-century Salzburg cathedral Kapellmeisters. Together with the Mozarteum vocalEnsemble and the Cappella del'Halla, he is dedicated to this hitherto little-explored world of sound – both as a conductor and as a harpsichordist. He works closely with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (CMBV) and will accept an invitation to guest conduct at the Chapelle Royale Versailles in March 2026.

Since 2025, Andresen has been directing the ensemble Le Nuove Musiche Bratislava, with which he is dedicated to researching Slovak Baroque music. The first concerts took place as part of the Bratislava Music Festival; and in 2026 the ensemble has been invited to the Schützfest Dresden, among other events.

Since 2020, he has been regularly responsible for large-scale choral symphonic performances at the Mozarteum Salzburg, including Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony, the requiems by Brahms, Mozart and Fauré, and Mendelssohn's Paulus.

In the summer of 2024, he led the World Youth Choir tour, which performed an a cappella programme and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in collaboration with the German National Youth Orchestra in Germany and Italy. In 2025, he will conduct the inaugural concert of ‘Designing Voices’, an international chamber choir of AEC students, at Expo 2025 in Osaka.