Jakob Lehmann is a conductor for whom stylistic awareness and historically informed performance are the pillars of emotionally sincere and energetic interpretations.
Jakob works both with orchestras such as Wiener Symphoniker, Tonkünstler Orchester, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bochumer Symphoniker, and Brandenburger Symphoniker, as well as period instrument groups such as Concerto Köln, Orchestra of the 18th Century, {OH!} – Orkiestra Historyczna, La Banda Storica Bern, and the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra.
He is the Artistic Director of Eroica Berlin, a chamber orchestra he founded in 2015 and which performed at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie for the first time in 2020. The group consists of young musicians from Berlin and focuses on translating the impulses and inspirations from period performance to modern instruments.
He has also served as Associate Artistic Director of New York based Belcanto festival Teatro Nuovo since 2019.
In the 2024/2025 season, he makes his debuts with Brucknerorchester Linz, Les Siècles, Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein, Orchestra La Scintilla, Collegium Novum Zürich, Wiener Concert-Verein, The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Juilliard Orchestra and Juilliard415. He returns for three different projects to Vienna’s Tonkünstler Orchester (amongst them three concerts at Vienna’s Musikverein), and further works again with Anima Eterna Brugge, Concerto Köln, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, La Banda Storica Bern, and Eroica Berlin. He conducts Verdi’s “Ernani” in his second collaboration with North Carolina Opera and Verdi’s “Macbeth” in his seventh season with Teatro Nuovo.