Jon Svinghammar

Swedish conductor Jon Svinghammar is acclaimed for his dynamic artistry and emotionally captivating interpretations. Praised as a “judicious and emotionally gripping conductor” for his work on Carmen at the Slovenian National Theatre in Maribor (Online Merker, 19.3.2022), he is known for inspiring orchestras to deliver vivid, powerful performances. The Kleine Zeitung lauded his “lively tempi and great beauty of sound,” while The Auditorium (08.2024 printed edition) described his Golden Hall concert in Vienna as “precise yet exhilarating… with hand gestures of broad expressive range that made the audience’s hearts overflow with joy.” During the 2026/27 season, he is re-invited to conduct at the Musikverein's Golden Hall in Vienna and in Grafenegg, amongst other venues, and will make his conducting debut at the 'Wien Modern' festival in Vienna, in Reggio Emilia (Italy), as well as in the Shunyi Grand Theatre and at the National Library Concert Hall in Beijing, China.

Since 2018, Svinghammar has served as Artistic Director of ensemble-N, a contemporary music group awarded the Boris Pergamenschikow Prize and the Special Prize of the Hanns Eisler Foundation in 2022. He was Director of the Coaching Staff and Conductor at Austria’s Festival Oper Burg Gars (2018–2023) and became Artistic Director of Accademia Vicino in 2022, a project recognized with the European State Prize for Culture by the Austrian government. He has conducted memorial concerts for Hermann Nitsch at the Nitsch Museum Mistelbach and for Leo Mazakarini at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, and led the ceremonial concert at the 2021 World Congress of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in the Vienna Hofburg.

Svinghammar has collaborated with dist orchestras and opera houses including the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra, Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Plovdiv Philharmonic, Savaria Symphony, Graz Festival Strings, Slovene National Theater Maribor and Romanian National Opera Bucharest. Dedicated to education, he regularly works with youth and recreational orchestras such as the LJO Tirol, JSO Niederösterreich, Orchesterverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, and the Wiener Akademische Philharmonie. Additional experience includes serving as musical assistant and Maestro Suggeritore at the Hamburg State Opera (2017) under Johannes Fritzsch and Kent Nagano.

In 2018, he was named a Laureate of the Luigi Mancinelli Opera Conducting Competition in Orvieto, Italy. He has participated in masterclasses with Uroš Lajovic, Mark Heron, Clark Rundell, and Marc Albrecht, and counts Maestro Johannes Wildner and Maestro Eliahu Inbal as his most important mentors.

Svinghammar’s training spans percussion, piano, improvisation, and composition at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava. He studied conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Martin Sieghart and Johannes Prinz, the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar with Nicolás Pasquet and Gunter Kahlert, and continued postgraduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Johannes Wildner.

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