Jon Svinghammar

Emerging swedish conductor Jon Svinghammar is renowned for his dynamic approach and fresh interpretations. He was praised as a „judicious and emotionally gripping conductor“ for his work on the acclaimed production of Carmen at the Slovenian National Theatre in Maribor (Online Merker, 19.3.2022). Known for drawing vibrant performances from orchestras, the Kleine Zeitung noted „lively tempi and great beauty of sound under his direction.“ The Auditorium wrote about his recent concert in Vienna’s Golden Hall: „He wasted no time immersing the audience as he conducted Stravinsky’s The Firebird, Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major. His precise yet exhilarating rhythm… made the audience’s hearts overflow with joy. His hand gestures, with a broad expressive range, even made the audience’s hearts flutter in large-scale works such as Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2.“ (The Auditorium, 08.2024 Printed edition). 

Since 2018, Jon Svinghammar has served as the Artistic Director of the contemporary music group ensemble-N, which was awarded the Boris Pergamenschikow Prize and the Special Prize of the Hanns Eisler Foundation in Berlin in 2022. He was the Director of the Coaching Staff and Conductor at Austria’s Festival Oper Burg Gars from 2018 to 2023. In 2021, he made significant contributions as a lecturer and conductor, and in 2022, he took on the role of Artistic Director for the Accademia Vicino project, which was honored with the European State Prize for Culture by the Austrian government. He conducted memorial concerts for notable figures such as artist and composer Hermann Nitsch at the Nitsch Museum Mistelbach and writer Leo Mazakarini at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. He also conducted the ceremonial event of the 2021 World Congress of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at the Vienna Hofburg.  

Jon Svinghammar has conducted well established orchestras, including the Danish National Philharmonic Orchestra, Plovdiv Philharmonic, Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Savaria Symphony, Girardi Ensemble, Graz Festival Strings, Klangvereinigung Wien and Platypus Ensemble. As part of his educational goals, he also worked regularly with youth orchestras such as the LJO Tirol and the JSO Niederösterreich, as well as the Orchesterverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien and the Wiener Akademische Philharmonie.  

In 2018, Jon Svinghammar was a Laureate of the Luigi Mancinelli Opera Conducting Competition in Orvieto, Italy. He participated in masterclasses with Uroš Lajovic, Mark Heron, Clark Rundell, and Marc Albrecht. Another important mentor of his was Maestro Eliahu Inbal. 

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

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