The Slovak conductor and chorus director Jozef Chabroň completed his training at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Even before graduating from his studies, he began to work in 2006 as assistant to the chorus director at the Slovak Philharmonic; in 2013 he took up the position of chorus director there. The Slovak Philharmonic Choir, prepared by him, appeared at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival in 2022 in a production of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko and was honoured for these performances the following year at the Oper! Awards with the ‘Best Choir’ Award.
Since autumn 2023 Jozef Chabroň has been musical assistant to the chorus director at the Vienna State Opera. In summer 2026 he appears at the Salzburg Festival for the first time, preparing the Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus for Saint François d’Assise and Così fan tutte.
His past artistic achievements include preparing the Slovak Philharmonic Choir for a new production of Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron under Christoph von Dohnányi at the Zurich Opera House in 2011, and also preparing the choir for various guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera, including in Musorgsky’s Khovanshchina (2014), Berlioz’s Les Troyens (2018) and Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (2023).
Jozef Chabroň has collaborated with numerous renowned conductors, including Semyon Bychkov, Tugan Sokhiev, James Conlon, Bertrand de Billy, Daniele Gatti, Emmanuel Villaume, Timur Zangiev, Alain Altinoglu, Juraj Valčuha, Gabriel Feltz and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
