Hansjörg Albrecht is one of the few artists who regularly appear internationally as both a conductor and concert organist. As a conductor, he is internationally recognised above all as a passionate specialist in the music of Bach and the opulent music of the 18th century, but as an all-round musician, he consistently goes his own way – between archive and new creation, with an extensive repertoire ranging from Bruckner, Wagner, Mahler and Strauss to Olivier Messiaen, numerous world premieres, as well as a penchant for forgotten composers such as the Bach sons, Hans Rott, Walter Braunfels and Mieczysław Weinberg. With his organ transcriptions, he established himself as a specialist among the virtuosos of his instrument. Albrecht succeeded the legendary Karl Richter as director of the Munich Bach Choir and the Munich Bach Orchestra from 2005 to 2023, leading the ensemble to new international fame with an extensive concert schedule. In addition, Albrecht was Principal Guest Conductor at the Teatro Petruzzelli Bari from 2021-2023.

From the 2023/24 season, he will be Artistic Director of the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Academy Hamburg, as well as the choir of the same name and the annual International Bach Festival Hamburg. He is working to establish Hamburg as an international Bach city and to develop a new platform for the Sturm und Drang music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his brothers. He also has a long-standing collaboration with the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, the Russian Chamber Orchestra in Moscow, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the Hamburg and Munich Symphony Orchestras.

His concert work takes him to music centres such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing and New York, where he regularly works with internationally renowned artists and orchestras – currently including Jan Vogler, Christian Gerhaher, Michael Volle, Sergei Nakarjakov, Reinhold Friedrich, Lucas & Arthur Jussen, Mikhail Pletnev and Andrea Lucchesini, and with orchestras such as the Bremen Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Hangzhou and Suzhou Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana Palermo, the Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, the Dresdner Kapellsolisten and period instrument ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, NDR Barock, the Dresden Festival Orchestra, the Halle Handel Festival Orchestra and the Lautten Compagney Berlin.

Albrecht has conducted prestigious Mozart opera productions at, among others, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and the new Dubai Opera House, as well as ballet projects with the dance companies of Marguerite Donlon and Boris Eifman.

In addition to the first performance of the reconstruction of the missing St. Luke Passion by J.S. Bach in Hamburg in 2024, he will follow numerous concert invitations in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, France, Croatia, Scandinavia, and China as a conductor and soloist, as well as a European tour with the China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra under the direction of Myung Whun Chung. In 2026, he will conduct Johann Christian Bach's opera Amadis des Gaules at the International Bach Festival in Hamburg.

Hansjörg Albrecht is a member of the board of directors of the Neue Bach-Gesellschaft Leipzig. He is also Artistic Director of the International Online Organ Festival (IOOF), which will be held worldwide for the first time in 2022 under the patronage of UNESCO, and of the 99th Bach Festival of the Neue Bach-Gesellschaft in Munich in 2025.

He has released well over 40 CDs as a conductor and organist on the Oehms Classics label and has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award, among other things. In 2024, Albrecht completed his first complete production worldwide of all Bruckner symphonies as organ transcriptions, which he has been recording for the OehmsClassics label since 2020 at original European locations such as St. Florian, Linz, Vienna, Munich, Leipzig, Lucerne, Zurich, London and Paris. He was subsequently named one of the leading Bruckner interpreters by the classical music magazine Crescendo (2024 annual edition).