About me

I don't conduct orchestra's, I make music with people

Ruben Hawer comes from Belgium and was born in Antwerp in 1998. At the age of seven, he received his first violin lessons, and by fifteen, he was playing in the orchestra academy of the Belgian National Orchestra. Additionally, he sang professionally for eight years in the children's choir of the Flemish Opera and performed as a boy soprano in major solo roles. Through these experiences, he collaborated with some of Belgium’s finest orchestras.

In 2014, he was awarded the "Topcultuurstatuut," a certificate from the Belgian Ministry of Culture for exceptionally talented musicians. This allowed him to pursue a bachelor's degree in violin at the LUCA School of Arts Leuven under Elisa Kawaguti, alongside his humanistic high school education in Ancient Greek and Mathematics.

In 2018, Ruben Hawer shifted his focus to conducting and moved to Salzburg. At the University Mozarteum, he studied orchestral conducting with Ion Marin, Bruno Weil, Alexander Drcar, Johannes Kalitzke, and Reinhard Goebel, as well as choral conducting with Jörn Andresen and Karl Kamper. He also participated in masterclasses with Alan Gilbert, Alexander Soddy, Vladimir Fedoseev, Maxim Vengerov, and Antoni Ros Marba.

As a conductor, Ruben Hawer has performed with ensembles such as the Bad Reichenhall Philharmoniker, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, österreichischen Ensemble für neue Musik (OENM), Ensemble Multilatérale, the New Art and Music Ensemble Salzburg (NAMES), the Symphony Orchestra of the University Mozarteum, and the Hofer Symphoniker. He has assisted with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and worked with the theater choirs of the Semperoper Dresden and the Gärtnerplatztheater Munich.

Currently, he is the chief conductor of the Junges Mozart Orchester and Mozart Kinderorchester Salzburg, as well as the choral director and assistant conductor at the theatre of Hof (Germany). There, he got the musical direction of the production ‚Peterchens Mondfahrt‘ and has already conducted several performances.