About

Mason Lubert is an American conductor whose recent concert engagements have featured a broad range of repertoire. Often focusing on contemporary orchestral music as well as opera, he was the Assistant Conductor and Conducting Fellow of the 2023 Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, New York and conducted the Hungarian premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Double Concerto in October 2022. He also led the world premieres of Hannah Eisendle’s Crushed Ice (2019) and Mechanical Minds by Emmy-winning composer Jake Runestad, and was Assistant Conductor to George Jackson for the world premiere of Tscho Theissing’s opera Genia (2020) at Theater an der Wien, where he also assisted their 2022 production of Il barbiere di Siviglia. In 2023, he also assisted Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring Richard Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie.

In 2021, he made his debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Vienna Residence Orchestra. In December of that year, he was a finalist in the Concurso Internacional de Dirección de Orquesta de UAL. 

An accomplished saxophonist, Lubert played in the Castleton Festival Orchestra from 2010 to 2012. As a conductor, some of his other work includes founding the Baltimore Concerto Orchestra, of which he served as Music Director for three years, as well as appearances with the Polish Baltic Philharmonic and ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and collaborations with the Vienna-based Managing Artists Con Brio and Pfaffstättner Hofopernorchester. He has also been invited to conduct at the Atlantic Music Festival Institute, the 2022 edition of Forum Dirigieren’s Das Kritische Orchester, and in masterclasses with Péter Eötvös, Sian Edwards, Marin Alsop, and Lorin Maazel.

Lubert was trained in conducting and opera coaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. A student of Mark Stringer and Yuji Yuasa, he was awarded a Magister Artium with distinction in October 2020. He also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he majored in Music Education and Saxophone Performance. He is a recipient of the American Austrian Foundation’s Young Conductors Fellowship and lives in Vienna.