the music in our bodies sounds
through ears and lips and arms
expresses soul without pretense
mysteriously making sense
Jera Petriček has studied conducting in her native Slovenia as well as in Vienna, where she lives. In 2018 she obtained the title Magistra Artium in Orchestral Conducting with Professor Simeon Pironkoff at the University for Music and Performing Arts (mdw) in Vienna.
Petriček founded and conducted the Slovenian Chamber Orchestra Vienna, where established professional musicians - notably Slovenian members of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony - collaborated with students of music and was also promoting Slovenian composers in Vienna.
Among the orchestras Jera Petriček has conducted are the Slovenian Philharmonic, the Moravian Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Philharmonia, Radio Orchestra Ljubljana, Maribor Opera Orchestra, Slowind Ensemble, and Orquestra de Camara de Cascais e Oeiras.
In 2022, Petriček was part of the leading team that created a prize-winning and perpetually sold out theatre production in the Vienna Volkstheater - humanistää!, which will be revived for the third time in the season 2024/25.
Since 2023 Jera Petriček has been employed full-time at the Vienna State Opera as maestra suggeritrice - prompter-conductor. She has acted as assistant conductor to Alexander Soddy for the Austrian first performance of the opera Animal Farm by Alexander Raskatov in February 2024.
Jera Petriček is also a doctoral student of Historical Musicology at the University of Music (mdw) with Prof. Dr. Melanie Unseld as her mentor. Petriček is writing a PhD thesis entitled “The Conductor Gertrud Herliczka - Viennese Traces of an International Career”.
CONCERT
CONCERT
Slavic Heart
sold outSlovenian Philharmonic
Cankarjev dom
Ljubljana
opera 23/24
opera 23/24
Every evening before the first show of a series I make a photo of the official opera poster, as a cherished memory and also because it has my name on it in small print below. The photos reflect the different lengths of day we have in Vienna, and sometimes there are people behind me, trying to look at the poster as well. In my first season at the Vienna State Opera I was very happy to work with so many inspiring conductors and singers! But to me, the most important part of my job is the collaboration with the team of people who work in the house - especially our fabulous pianists and amazing stage directors, whom we call the Abendspielleitung. 
humanistää!
Mannheimer Morgen, 14.5.2022
“Drei Herren im Frack betreten den Saal, Musiker sind es. Ihnen folgt herrischen Schrittes eine strenggescheitelte Dame im Frack, Applaus brandet auf im Haus der Berliner Festspiele, ist sie doch die Dirigentin. Es ist Jera H. Petriček. Nach pausenlosen zwei Stunden weiß man, dass sie allen Applaus wert ist. Wie eine Zirkusdompteurin hat sie dieses unter Masken spielende, sprechende, pantomimisierende, rhythmisch atmende und tanzende Ensemble des Wiener Volkstheaters auf Trab und auch im Takt gehalten.”
Ralf-Carl Langhals
