Jörg Zwicker
Jörg Zwicker was born in 1969 in Judenburg/Austria. He studied Violoncello with Hildgund Posch at the University of Music in Graz as well as Viola da gamba with José Vazquez at the Vienna University of Music and Dramatic Arts. In 1990 Master Class Diploma in violoncello, in 1995 he graduated as a Master of Arts.
Since 1985 he has been intensively involved with early music. In depth further studies in Baroque cello and performance practice lead him to Jaap ter Linden at Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag, Netherlands, as well as to Christophe Coin at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland.
In 1985 he founded the special ensemble for early music "Musica Antiqua Graz", from which "Capella Leopoldina" emerged in 1992. From 1988 to 1992 he was a member of Capella Savaria. Jörg Zwicher is also a founder member of the ensembles "Musica Poetica", "Il Parnaso Musicale" and "Capella Musicae". He has worked with major conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Nicholas McGegan, Fabio Luisi, Eric Ericson, Barthold and Sigiswald Kuijken, Konrad Junghänel, Johannes Prinz, Erwin Ortner. As a Baroque cellist and conductor he has performed with a variety of ensembles and orchestras all over Europe, Ukraine, India, Canada and the USA. His work has been documented on about 40 CD recordings as well as multiple radio and TV productions.
Since the fall of 1995 Jörg Zwicker has been teaching Baroque cello at the Department of Early Music at the Konservatorium Wien University, and he has been a lecturer for violoncello, chamber music and conducting at the University of Music in Graz.
Discography Jörg Zwicker
H. Schütz: Kleine geistliche Konzerte
Solisten d. Tölzer Knabenchor; G. Schmidt-Gaden - Capriccio, 1989; 10418; LC 8748
Barockmusik aus Norditalien
Il Parnaso Musicale - Tuning, 1989; TUN 789014-2, LC 6981
G. Ph. Telemann: Brockes-Passion
Capella Savaria; N. McGegan - Hungaroton 1990; HCD 31130-32
G. F. Händel: Floridante
Capella Savaria; N.McGegan - Hungaroton 1990, HCD 31304-06
G. F. Händel: Terpsichore
Capella Savaria; N.McGegan - Hungaroton 1990
J. S. Bach: Hochzeitskantaten
Capella Savaria; P. Nemeth - Quintana/marmonia mundi france, 1990, QUI 903010
W. A. Mozart: Exultate jubilate
Capella Savaria; P. Nemeth - Quintana/marmonia mundi france, 1990, QUI 903015
G. B. Pergolesi: Stabat mater
Mariá Zadori, Derek Lee Ragin, Capella Savaria; P. Nemeth - Quintana/marmonia mundi france, 1990, QUI 903011
G. Ph. Telemann: Alt-Kantaten
Annette Markert, Il Parnaso Musicale - Christophorus, 1990, CHR 77119
C. Monteverdi: Madrigali
Mária Zádori, Guy de Mey, u.a. Capella Savaria; N. McGegan - Quintana/marmonia mundi france, 1991, QUI 903014
J. J. Fux: Il trionfo della fede
Capella Savaria; F. Luisi - ORF/Adeva, 1991, Adevaphon 3-4
G. F. Händel: Agrippina
Capella Savaria; N. McGegan - harmonia mundi, 1991, HMU 90706365
W. A. Mozart: Klavierkonzerte
Musica Antiqua Graz; J. Zwicker - Tuning, 1991, TUN9101-2
C. H. Graun: Der Tod Jesu
Capella Savaria; P. Nemeth - Quintana/marmonia mundi france, 1991, QUI 903061
A. Vivaldi: Oboenkonzerte
Capella Savaria; M. Wolf - Quintana/marmonia mundi france, 1992, QUI 903018
B. Marcello: Psalmen XIV, XVII
G. de Mey, K. Mertens, R. Balconi - Quintana/marmonia mundi france, 1992, HMA 1903048
J. G. Werner: Deborah
Capella Savaria; P. Nemeth - Quintana/marmonia mundi france, 1992, QUI 9030??
Discography Jörg Zwicker
G. Ph. Telemann: Triosonaten
Il Parnaso Musicale - Christophorus, 1993, CHR 77138
A. Stradella: Lo Schiavo liberato
Stradella Consort; E. Velardi - Bongiovanni, 1993, GB 2164-2
Rossetti, Stich: Hornkonzerte
Sol sol la sol; H. Arman - 1994
Biber: Missa Alleluja; Schmelzer: Vesperae solennes
Gradus ad Parnassum; K. Junghänel - deutsche harmonia mundi/ORF, 1994, 05472 773262
Stradella: Kantaten
Orchestra dell´Arcademia; S. Balestracci - Stradivarius, 1994
Ovids Reise
Musica Poetica - Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik 1998, CD 980322
J. S. Bach: 6 Suites a Violoncello solo
Jörg Zwicker - MMP, 2000 - Eigenverlag, MMP 21031685
Lux Æterna
Armonico tributo Austria, L. Duftschmid - cpo, 2002
A. D. 1683
Armonico tributo Austria, L. Duftschmid - cpo, 2002
Vedo il ciel – Arias and Overtures by Handel
Capella Leopoldina; Lydia Vierlinger - Alto - universal/Amadeo 2004, CD 476 300 0
nominiert für den "Klassik Amadeus Award"
Winter wonderland
The 4reasons
D´Ohr records, 2004, DRCD-0406
Pastorelle en musique – G.Ph. Telemann
Capella Leopoldina, Doerthe Maria Sandmann, Barbara Fink, Lydia Vierlinger, Bernhard Berchtold, Mathias Hausmann; Dir. Kirill Karabits Weltersteinspielung Capriccio 2005 – 71 054/55
Almirante
Barocke Duette für Sopran und Alt von H. Purcell, G. F. Händel, J. S. Bach, J. J.Fux Idee und Konzept: Jörg Zwicker, ergänzendes Libretto Thomas Höft, ital. Übersetzung: Carmen Grasso, ergänzende Rezitative: Ugo Nastrucci Capella Leopoldina; Deborah York – Sopran, Lydia Vierlinger – Alt; Dir. Jörg Zwicker NAXOS/Phoenix 2008, 121
FUSION – Baroque meets Jazz
Capella Leopoldina, AMEN Universal 2008
"Ein Karneval in Wien"
Accentus Austria, 2016
Georg Philipp Telemann
Kammermusik - 2017