The choir director, conductor and harpsichordist Jörn Andresen has been a university professor of choral conducting at the mozarteum university Salzburg and choral director of the Wiener Staatsopernchor at the Salzburg Festival since 2019. He is also a regular guest with major radio and opera choirs in Germany and Europe.

As a conductor, Jörn Andresen has specialised in baroque works in addition to his many years of experience as a conductor at various opera houses and can look back on a broad repertoire of operas and (sacred) concert programmes. He specialises in baroque operas from Purcell to Händel at the opera houses in Koblenz, Munich (Gärtnerplatz) and Regensburg, as well as oratorios, vespers and masses from Monteverdi to Bach. He currently works regularly with the Capella dell'halla. Together with the Mozarteum vocalEnsemble, he is gradually exploring the work of Salzburg’s 17th century cathedral conductors from Bernardi to Biber, which is underrepresented in the city’s musical life.

He conducts the Klangverwaltung choir, with whom he has made several guest appearances at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, including the St Matthew Passion, which was broadcast on ORF. Numerous other concerts have taken the choir under his direction, including to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

Jörn Andresen regularly gives masterclasses and is also active as a juror at various competitions, including the German Choral Conducting Prize 2022 and the Worldpeace Choral Festival in Vienna.

Born in Schleswig Holstein, he studied conducting, choral conducting, piano and harpsichord in Dresden and Amsterdam. After working as a choir director and conductor in Zwickau, Koblenz and at Munich’s Gärtnerplatztheater, Jörn Andresen moved to the Semperoper Dresden in 2015, where he took over the direction of the Sächsischen Staatsopernchor for five years. With this (his declared favourite) opera choir, he was nominated for his production of Moses and Aron for the International Opera Award in 2018.