Christian Jost

The composer and conductor Christian Jost has had a decisive influence on contemporary music over the last 20 years. His ten full-length operas and numerous large symphonic works and chamber music pieces are now part of the repertoire of European stages and international ensembles, including major opera houses and orchestras such as the Zurich Opera, the Theater an der Wien and the Grand Theatre de Geneva, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Grafenegg Festival, the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, as well as the Taiwan Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

Jost’s music sonically follows the idea of structural improvisation, ‘now and then the wind of jazz blows, but not stormily, … rather fleetingly.’
‘Not a shock effect, but a pull effect is created’ – ’he uses the musical innovations of the last hundred years sparingly and effectively at the same time.’
He writes from his heart for the souls of people, he is always concerned with the organic flow and living breathing of the music.

‘Jost is one of the most accomplished composers of our time’ (NZZ, Eleonore Bünig) and stands in the tradition of Romanticism with or despite musical innovation.