Davorin Mori is is one of the most prominent representatives of the younger generation of Slovenian conductors, based in Vienna.
Since the autumn of 2024, he has been appointed as the principal guest conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra.
He made his breakthrough at the Opening Festival of Salzburger Festspiele in 2016, where he conducted Karen Asatrian´s Mass Prayer Wheel for Jazz ensemble and Choir. The live recording of the concert was released by Universal Austria.
Among other engagements, Davorin Mori has conducted the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra SNG Maribor, the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, the Armenian State Orchestra, and the Camerata Sinfonica Austria, where he also serves as the artistic director. From 2021 to 2024, Davorin Mori was the assistant to the choir director Thomas Lang at the Vienna State Opera and also served as a guest choir director at the Malmö Opera.
Davorin Mori regularly collaborates with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Pro Artes Vienna opera company. With the Camerata Sinfonica Austria, he has conducted operettas and operas such as "Die Lustige Witwe", "Im weißen Rößl", "Hänsel und Gretel" and several concerts. With the Klagenfurt Ensemble, Davorin Mori conducted the world premieres of two operas by the American composer Erling Wold: "YKCYC" (2012) and "Daphne's Garden" (2023).
As a pianist, Davorin Mori has performed at festivals such as the Carinthian Summer, the International Arts Festival Shanghai, the Imagine Festival Antwerp, the St. Paul Cultural Summer, Classical Music in Klagenfurt, Proms on Stage: Young Artists Linz, and the Ljubljana Festival. As a soloist, Davorin Mori has played with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, among others. Davorin Mori has frequently performed with the renowned Slovenian mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink. Since 2022, he has been teaching piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Davorin studied piano and conducting at the Landeskonservatorium Klagenfurt with Alexei Kornienko, piano at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Claudius Tanski and conducting at the University of Performing Arts Vienna in the class of Dr. Johannes Wildner and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
He is a member of the Slovenian Society for Modern Music Janus Atelier.