Johannes Beranek, Dirigent und Moderation

Born in Lower Austria, conductor, composer, and horn player Johannes Beranek is known for the breadth of his work.

He is the Assistant Conductor of the 2026 Salzburg Mozart Week, where he will assist Roberto González-Monjas in Rolando Villazón’s new production of The Magic Flute. In June 2025 he won the “Karl Österreicher” Conducting Competition. In 2026 and 2027 he will appear as guest conductor with the Musikkollegium Winterthur. Following his debut with the North Czech Philharmonic in Prague’s Smetana Hall in 2025, he will return there as guest conductor next season.

In 2026 he will collaborate with the Wiener Concert-Verein as composer and soloist, and since 2025 he has been the musical director of the “Danube Brass Ensemble”.

He has participated in various masterclasses and workshops with conductors such as Petr Popelka, Stéphane Denève, Robert Spano, George Jackson, Jane Glover, Nicholas McGegan, Sian Edwards, and Johannes Schlaefli.

In 2024 he was a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, where he conducted, among other works, the world premiere of Isabella Gellis’ Four Morris Interludes.

He has conducted, among others, the New World Symphony Orchestra, the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, and the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra.

In 2021 he founded the “Sommernachtsklänge” festival in Lower Austria. As a composer he won the Austrian composition competition “Jugend komponiert”.

He studied horn with Christoph Peham and Peter Dorfmayr and will complete his orchestral conducting studies with Mark Stringer at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in June 2026. As a horn player he has performed in concerts of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the ensemble “Pygmalion”, the orchestra “Il Pomo d’Oro”, and the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria.

(as of Nov. 2025)