Jörg Widmann

Jörg Widmann is equally well known as a clarinetist and composer. He is also active as a conductor and is a significant educator. Among Widmann's honors, his opera Das Gesicht im Spiegel was selected as the most important world premiere of the 2003-2004 season by Opernwelt magazine. In 2020, he contributed the work empty space to the online Festival of New Music during the Covid pandemic; the work was tailored for the empty Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. Widmann's compositions fall into a wide variety of idioms, from purely tonal to pitchless. More than 60 of Widmann's compositions have been recorded, prominent among them his four string quartets. In 2024, he returned with an album on which he was featured as both performer (of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581) and composer (of his own Clarinet Quintet).