Hansjörg Albrecht is one of the few artists who regularly performs internationally both as a conductor and concert organist. As a conductor, he is internationally renowned above all as a passionate specialist in Bach and the opulent music of the 18th century, but as an all-round musician he consistently follows his own path – between archive and new creation, with an extensive repertoire ranging to Olivier Messiaen, numerous world premieres and a penchant for forgotten composers. With his dual talent as a conductor and organist, he is one of the few internationally recognized specialists in the combination of organ and orchestra, and with a large number of transcriptions, he has established himself among the virtuosos of his instrument.

Since the 2023/24 season, he has been artistic director of the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Academy in Hamburg, the choir of the same name, and the annual International Bach Festival in Hamburg. He is also working to establish Hamburg as an international Bach city and to build a new platform for the Sturm und Drang music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his brothers. In addition, he has a long-standing collaboration with the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, the Russian Chamber Orchestra Moscow, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg and Munich Symphony Orchestras, and the Handel Festival Orchestra Halle.

Albrecht succeeded the legendary Karl Richter as director of the Munich Bach Choir and the Munich Bach Orchestra from 2005 to 2023, leading the ensemble to new international acclaim with an extensive concert schedule. Albrecht was also principal guest conductor at the Teatro Petruzzelli Bari from 2021 to 2023.

His concert engagements take him to music centers such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing, and New York, where he regularly works with internationally renowned artists and orchestras, currently including Jan Vogler, Christian Gerhaher, Michael Volle, Sergei Nakarjakov, Reinhold Friedrich, Lucas & Arthur Jussen, and Mikhail Pletnev, orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Halle, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Hangzhou and Suzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana Palermo, Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, Symphony Orchestra of the Szczecin Philharmonic, and the Dresdner Kapellsolisten, as well as original sound ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, NDR Barock, the Dresden Festival Orchestra, Lautten Compagney Berlin, and the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra.

Albrecht has conducted prestigious Mozart opera productions at venues including the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and the new Dubai Opera House, as well as ballet projects with the dance companies of Marguerite Donlon and Boris Eifman.

In addition to the world premiere of the reconstruction of J.S. Bach's missing St. Luke Passion in Hamburg in 2024, he will follow numerous concert invitations in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, France, Croatia, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Spain, and many times to China, where he is currently performing as organist with the Nanjing Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra Beijing under Myung Whun Chung and has received a re-invitation to collaborate with the Hangzhou Philharmonic in 2026.

Hansjörg Albrecht is artistic director of the International Online Organ Festival (IOOF), which is under the patronage of UNESCO, and of the 2025 Munich Bach Festival.

He has released well over 40 CDs as conductor and organist on the Oehms Classics label and has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award, among other honors. In 2024, Albrecht completed the world's first complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies as organ transcriptions, which he has been recording since 2020 for the OehmsClassics label at the original European venues. He was subsequently named one of the leading Bruckner interpreters by the classical music magazine Crescendo (2024 annual edition).