Davorin Mori is one of the most prominent representatives of the younger generation of Slovenian conductors, currently based in Vienna.

Since autumn 2024, he has served as Principal Guest Conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, with which he performs in subscription concerts, guest appearances, and numerous audio and video recordings. He is also Artistic Director and conductor of the Camerata Sinfonica Austria, and maintains regular collaborations with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the opera company ProArtes Vienna.

He made his international breakthrough at the Opening Festival of the Salzburg Festival in 2016, where he conducted Karen Asatrian’s jazz mass Prayer Wheel for jazz ensemble and the Vienna Philharmonic Choir. The live recording of the performance was released by Universal Austria in 2017. Since then, he has appeared with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of SNG Maribor, the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra Szeged, the Carinthian State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, and others.

Mori’s choral work includes serving as Assistant to the Chorus Director Thomas Lang at the Vienna State Opera from 2021 to 2024, as well as working as Guest Chorus Director at Malmö Opera. From 2021 to 2022 he led the Choir Cappella Albertina Wien, where he conducted Handel’s Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and over the years established a strong sacral repertoire.

He has led a variety of operatic and concert projects with Camerata Sinfonica Austria. In co-production with ProArtes Vienna, they performed operettas and operas such as Die lustige Witwe (2021), Im weißen Rößl (2022), Hänsel und Gretel (2024), and Die Csárdásfürstin (2025). Together with accordionist Klaus Paier and Camerata Sinfonica Austria, he recorded the LP View to Horizon (2023), which was released by Skip Records Hamburg. With the Klagenfurt Ensemble, he conducted the world premieres of two operas by American composer Erling Wold: YKCYC (2012) and Daphne’s Garden (2023). With the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, he has premiered several contemporary symphonic works by Slovenian composers, including Concerto for Two Pianos by Uros Rojko and Violin Concerto by Tomaz Svete.

As a pianist, Mori has performed at international festivals including the Carintischer Sommer, the International Arts Festival Shanghai, the Imagine Festival Antwerp, the St. Paul Kultursommer, Klassik in Klagenfurt, Proms on Stage: Young Artists Linz, and the Ljubljana Festival. He has appeared as soloist with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria (in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein), and Sinfonietta Klagenfurt, among others, and has frequently performed with the renowned Slovenian mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink.

Since 2022, he has taught piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he was appointed Senior Artist in Piano in 2025.

He is a member of the piano trio Trio Janus Atelier, performing both classical and contemporary repertoire, and for twenty years he has been part of the Tango Quintet Piazzolleky, with which he has recorded three CDs and one LP and toured across Europe and China.

In 2025, his recording with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra of the ballet music Man with the Knife by Slovenian composer Milko Lazar was released on both CD and LP by ZKP RTV Slovenia. In total, Mori has participated in more than eleven CD and LP releases as a chamber music partner, pianist, and conductor, and has premiered numerous contemporary works by Slovenian and Austrian composers such as Krecic, Veber, Reiter, Paier, Preinfalk, Banlaky, and Wagner.

He was a finalist of the 2021 Malta International Conducting Competition and is a prizewinner of several piano competitions in Slovenia, Italy, and Serbia.

He studied piano and conducting at the Carinthian State Conservatory in Klagenfurt with Alexei Kornienko, piano at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Claudius Tanski, and conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in the classes of Johannes Wildner and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

Davorin Mori is a member of the Slovenian Society for Modern Music Janus Atelier.