Yuval Weinberg

Yuval Weinberg studied choral conducting with Jörg-Peter Weigle at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and with Grete Pedersen at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. He then began his training in orchestral conducting and singing at the Buchmann-Mehta Academy of Music at the University of Tel Aviv.

From 2015 to 2017 he was the conductor of the NOVA Chamber Choir in Oslo and the Norwegian National Youth Choir. Since summer 2019 he has been principal guest conductor of the Norwegian Soloist Choir and artistic director of EuroChoir. In October 2019 he was appointed chief conductor of the SWR Vocal Ensemble and will take up his post at the beginning of the 2020/21 season.

He also regularly conducts the Bavarian Radio Chorus in concert and on recordings. He has taken rehearsals for conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, Ottavio Dantone, Keri-Lynn Wilson and Tõnu Kaljuste. As a scholarship holder and finalist of the German Conductors’ Forum, supported by Tenso, the European network for professional chamber choirs, he has collaborated with such renowned choirs as Cappella Amsterdam, the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the MDR Radio Choir, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the NDR Choir, the RIAS Chamber Choir, the Berlin Radio Choir and the Swedish Radio Choir.

Yuval Weinberg has won numerous international competitions. In 2017 he won first prize and the special prize for best conducting at the International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf with the NOVA Chamber Choir from Oslo. In 2015 and 2016 he was sponsored by the Gary Bertini Foundation as the winner of the Young Talent Prize for Israeli choir directors. In 2014 he received first prize at the International Choir Conducting Competition in Wroclaw, as well as the jury’s special prize at the 2013 International Choir Conducting Competition in St Petersburg.

In addition to his work as music director of various youth choirs promoting young singers, he gives conducting courses and workshops at international festivals such as Europa Cantat and Les Choralies.