
EMANUEL MESHVINSKI
COMPOSER // CONDUCTOR

ABOUT ME
I am Emanuel “Emu” Meshvinski, composer, conductor and Artistic Director of the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg.
I look for jazz in classical music, playfulness within seriousness and hope in the dark, connecting concert hall, film and club culture.
After studying composition, conducting and viola in Hamburg and Zurich, I work with orchestras, ensembles and artists across Europe and compose for film, television and theatre.
With the JCOHH, which I lead, I bring Jewish music to life in new ways and help shape Germany's cultural landscape.
CONCERTS
resonanzraum Hamburg
"FULL ORCHESTRA. NO PLAN."
June 6, 2026
"Full Orchestra. No Plan." brings together the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg and hidden shakespeare in a new format somewhere between concert and improvisational theater. From Gershwin to Korngold, spontaneous scenes, musical characters, and absurd twists emerge live on stage. Emanuel directs the evening artistically and musically, shaping a playful experiment in which classical music relinquishes control and becomes theatrical, immediate, and joyfully unpredictable.

VENTANA Köln
"TIKKUN OLAM"
September 5, 2026
Tikkun Olam brings the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg to the SHALOM-MUSIK.KOELN festival, focusing on the Jewish idea of repairing the world. Together with Bar Zemach on shofar and horn, and Jascha Nemtsov on piano, they create a multifaceted evening encompassing works by Mahler, Piazzolla, Lev Kogan, Gerald Cohen, Leonid Desyatnikov, and Bar Zemach himself. Under the direction of Emanuel Meshvinski, the program explores themes of remembrance, new beginnings, and the power of music to connect.

St. Michaelis Krypta, Hamburg
"Leben, Meschugge gut"
September 19, 2026
"Life, Crazy Good" brings the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Hamburg to the crypt of St. Michael's Church in Hamburg, combining concert, readings, and Jewish humor into an intimate evening exploring life in all its contradictions. With music by Piazzolla, Desyatnikov, Lev Kogan, and others, as well as texts by Sholem Aleichem, Mascha Kaléko, Georg Kreisler, and Joseph Stein, the program oscillates between melancholy, wit, and joie de vivre. Under the direction of Emanuel Meshvinski, this becomes a chamber music exploration of the art of carrying on, despite everything, in a good, clever, and slightly crazy way.
