"I believe in the rise of melodies in decisive life situations. I therefore feel closely connected to all melodists between Franz Schubert and Brian Wilson. In my musical thinking, the precise form and logic of a structure, shortening, tightening as well as expansive sequences, repetitive patterns and ordering schemes play a major role. I have also always been impressed by all the phenomena of a "musica impura": disturbed sounds, noises, actions, unclean tones, transverse, bizarre or off-kilter details. However, if I were to name a comprehensive vision, then it would be joy, comfort and community that my music should bring to the listener. In recent years, I have therefore increasingly turned to large, narrative musical forms."

Jobst Liebrecht was born in Hamburg in 1965. He has conducted the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sinfonietta Leipzig, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and at the opera houses in Hamburg, Halle and Giessen. He is an ECHO award winner and has worked with many contemporary music ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Mosaik and EnsembleUnitedBerlin. He has always been active in youth work: since 2005 he has directed the Marzahn-Hellersdorf Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Hans Werner Henze Music School, since 2013 the newly founded Berlin State Youth Ensemble for New Music together with Gerhard Scherer, and since 2014 the composition workshop for children at the Berlin State Opera. In 2015 and 2017, Jobst Liebrecht was invited to teach composition at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. As a composer, Jobst Liebrecht now has a broad oeuvre ranging from chamber music and choral works to an opera and five symphonies. His Symphony No. 1 was performed at the Imgingak Memorial on the border between North and South Korea. His works are published by Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin.