After completing his studies and scholarship stays in Bamberg and Paris, Johannes X. Schachtner worked as a conductor and composer. He has conducted orchestras such as the Kremerata Baltica, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the National Chamber Philharmonic Prague and numerous ensembles in the field of contemporary music. Music theatre productions have taken him to the Vorarlberg State Theatre and the Munich Biennale, among others. He is the founding conductor and artistic director of Ju[mb]le, the Bavarian Youth Ensemble for New Music, and has been the artistic director of the BERGSON VOICES choir project since 2025.
As a conductor, he is a regular guest at festivals such as the European Weeks Passau, the Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth and the Autumn Music Days Bad Urach. Since 2019, he has been conductor of the Kindersinfoniker (artistic director Julia Fischer), with whom he will be performing at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in 2023 together with members of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. In 2025, Johannes X. Schachtner also took over the renowned ‘Münchner Kinderkonzerte’ .
His extensive compositional work is performed by internationally renowned soloists and orchestras; in April 2023, for example, a violin concerto was premiered with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Julia Fischer under the baton of Jakub Hrůša. The recording of his highly acclaimed orchestrations of all of Giacomo Puccini's songs (including CD of the Week in the New York Times) was awarded the Opus Klassik in 2024. His main work has been published by Musikverlag Sikorski/Boosey&Hawkes (Berlin) since 2010.

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