Conductor

John Adams

Creative Chair, Los Angeles Philharmonic

"John Adams is arguably one of the best composer-conductors since Benjamin Britten... "Gramophone Magazine

Thomas Adès

Marc Albrecht

Chief Conductor, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Chief Conductor, Netherlands Opera

"Albrecht [unleashed] a surging and ebbing journey of well-defined musical moments that melded perfectly into one mighty, arching whole. Bravo, Mr. Albrecht."James Sohre, Opera Today, February 2012

Marco Armiliato

Philippe Auguin

Music Director of Washington National Opera and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.
Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice.

"What makes this production, heard on Saturday night, worth your time is that WNO's new music director, Philippe Auguin, is in the pit, working more magic. ..."DCist

Kees Bakels

"Bakels scales and phrases the music to perfection... Ensemble is always crisp, strings silky smooth, timps taut and clear; the woodwind sound fresh and frisky too...."Dan Morgan, Music Web International

Maurizio Barbacini

Giordano Bellincampi

General Music Director, Danish National Opera;
General Music Director Designate, Duisburg Philharmonic;
Principal Conductor Designate, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Milan

"When Bellincampi carves out these large gestures, one can feel how much passion he works into the melody. "Rudolf Hermes, JB Press Der Wester

Gisèle Ben-Dor

Conductor Laureate Santa Barbara Symphony
Conductor Emerita Boston Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra

"Ben-Dor casts her spell"Boston Globe

Alan Buribayev

Principal Conductor, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra,
Chief Conductor, Brabants Orchestra

"His vibrant presence on the podium earns him ready respect and eager response from this fabulous band of musicians..."Pat O'Kelly, Irish Independent

Semyon Bychkov

Otto Klemperer Chair of Conducting Studies, Royal Academy of Music (London)

"In Semyon Bychkov the Royal Opera House has found an exceptional interpreter of Puccini's score. He sculpts the music to perfection, letting the music breathe with..."Sam Smith, MusicOMH

Joana Carneiro

Music Director, Berkeley Symphony

Guest Conductor, Gulbenkian Orchestra

"Carneiro and the orchestra dug into the music with zest, evoking rugged, earthy life and passion, calm respite and mystical ceremony"Los Angeles Times

Michael Christie

Music Director, Colorado Music Festival
Virginia G. Piper Music Director, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra
Music Director Designate, Minnesota Opera

Teodor Currentzis

Artistic Director of Perm State Opera and Ballet Theatre
Founder and Music Director of MusicAeterna Ensemble and MusicAeterna Choir
Principal Guest Conductor of SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg

"Currentzis is an exceptional perfectionist. Every phrase, every pause, every rubato is balanced, grounded and yet spontaneous"Frankfurter Allgemeine by Kerstin Holm

Jonathan Darlington

Music Director, Vancouver Opera

"Conductor Jonathan Darlington gives the score a flat-out, hyper-emotional reading in which the great tunes still soar magnificently, but an insistent verismo edge intensifies the overall..."Vancouver Sun by David Gordon Duke

George Daugherty

"With Daugherty on the podium, The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra played with staggering precision and magnificent gusto, bringing the rich and complicated textures of the complex..."The Los Angeles Times

Thomas Dausgaard

Chief Conductor, Swedish Chamber Orchestra;
Conductor Laureate, Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR

"Dausgaard's forces weaved through with authority and luminous beauty. I wouldn't have missed it for the world."The Times

Alondra de la Parra

"With incisive gestures, Ms. de la Parra elicited a vibrantly nuanced performance whose bristling conclusion had the audience on their feet. "The New York Times

Stéphane Denève

Chief Conductor, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR)
Music Director, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

"Stéphane Denève.. struck sparks with the [Chicago Symphony] orchestra in a deftly balanced French and Russian program. Denève...clearly knows what he wants..."Chicago Classical Review

Jean Deroyer

Music Director of Ensemble Court-Circuit

Principal Guest Conductor of l'Ensemble Basse Normandie

"... Klangforum, conducted by Jean Deroyer, gave obsessively good performances of six major works. From the whispered, stuttering fragments of Georges Aperghis’s 2008 Seesaw to the amplified..."Shirley Apthorp, Financial Times

Peter Feranec

Music Director and Principal Conductor at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg

Rob Fisher

Music Supervisor, Chicago: The Musical (Broadway and International companies)

Founding M.D., New York City Center’s Encores!

"one of the country’s foremost conductors of the musical-theater repertory"The New York Times

Claus Peter Flor

Music Director of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

"Flor worked his magic right from the start. Who knew that muted horns could play so softly as in the opening of Dvorák's rarely performed..."The Dallas Morning News by Scott Cantrell

Riccardo Frizza

"The musical direction of Riccardo Frizza was one of the most pleasant surprises of the evening. [...] He was totally convincing, conducting his forces with both strength..."José M. Irurzun, Seen and Heard

Sachio Fujioka

Principal Conductor, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra

"Fujioka was very much the right man for the job, his clear-cut unambiguous body language coaxing a splendidly committed response from his forces."West Australian, Perth, 11 October 2004

James Gaffigan

Chief Conductor, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Principal Guest Conductor, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Principal Guest Conductor, Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne

"Gaffigan is one of those rare conductors ... who not only shows you how a piece should sound, but what it means."Toronto Globe and Mail

Sir James Galway

Principal Guest Conductor, London Mozart Players

Alan Gilbert

Music Director, New York Philharmonic
Conductor Laureate, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Principal Guest Conductor, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg

"Alan Gilbert set out Friday to demonstrate with the Cleveland Orchestra that music from the Second Viennese School isn't all thorny and intellectual, and in that..."Zachary Lewis, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

José Luis Gomez

David Greilsammer

Musical Director, Geneva Chamber Orchestra

"...Mr Greilsammer is a standout musician who has it in him to challenge, inform and delight audiences."New York Times

Marco Guidarini

"The COC Orchestra was impeccably led by Italian Marco Guidarini, who carefully highlighted the many musical cues in this, a score that is much deeper than..."The Star by John Terauds

Tomáš Hanus

"“Overwhelming! The Czech conductor Tomas Hanus and shining state orchestra bought to life the shades of colour, emotional glow and gripping drama of Dvorak’s score..."Landschuter Zeitung, Dr. Peter Wolf-Dieter (Rusalka, Bayerische Staatsoper)

Manfred Honeck

Music Director, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

"[Manfred Honeck's] interpretations hark back to a time when the rules were fewer and the colours brighter. His Mahler Five steered clear of the sleep-inducing modern..."Igor Toronyi-Lalic, The ArtsDesk

Jakub Hrůša

Music Director and Chief Conductor, Prague Philharmonia

Music Director, Glyndebourne on Tour

Principal Guest Conductor, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

"Jakub Hrůša is an outstanding young conductor, discriminating and focussed as well as possessing the ability to energise musicians."Classical Source

Pietari Inkinen

Music Director, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Principal Guest Conductor, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra

"Conducting with an uncommonly deep and youthful momentum and with the deep intensity of a “shooting star” the young, elite Finnish conductor led all the orchestral..."Fa, Saarbruker Zeitung

Kristjan Järvi

Music Director Designate MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony
Founder and Music Director, Absolute Ensemble, New York
Founding Conductor and Music Director, Baltic Youth Philharmonic
Artistic Advisor, Basel Chamber Orchestra

Alexander Joel

Music Director of Staatstheater Braunschweig

"Alexander Joel trägt die Sänger auf Händen, schafft Plateaus, auf denen sich die Stimmen entfalten können, schärft zugleich die Partitur, betont..."Opernwelt (Tristan und Isolde, Staatstheater Braunschweig)

Philippe Jordan

Music Director, Opéra National de Paris

Chief Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker from 2014/2015.

"Philippe Jordan’s conducting, which whisks us through the score but still showcases myriad details. He has never done anything finer in Paris and the orchestral..."FT, Francis Carlin

Michail Jurowski

Principal guest conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria

"...The baton drives with relentless accuracy... but the soul of the music is never forgotten. Jurowski epitomises the synthesis of precision and lyricism."Benedikt Leßmann, Leipziger Volkszeitung

Vladimir Jurowski

Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Principal Artist, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Music Director, Glyndebourne Opera
Artistic Director, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra)

"Quite simply the most insightful, illuminating and uplifting performance that Mahler's Resurrection has enjoyed in a generation. You may think you know how Mahler's Second Symphony..."Edward Seckerson, Gramophone

Jeffrey Kahane

Music Director, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Music Director, Colorado Symphony Orchestra

"By the end of the performance, the audience was left in a frenzy and rose to give the musician a standing ovation."The Examiner

Constantine Kitsopoulos

Music Director, Queens Symphony Orchestra


Music Director, 2012 Festival of the Arts BOCA

"Constantine Kitsopoulos shapes the score with elastic and fleet assurance, and…is alert to the music’s kaleidoscopic textures."The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Julian Kovatchev

Artistic and Music Director at Teatro del Giglio in Lucca

"Conductor Julian Kovatchev evokes hectic chaos that sounds spontaneous but flows with the precision required to allow all the singers to be heard amid the subplots..."John Keillor, National Post

Emmanuel Krivine

Music Director, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg

Principal Conductor, La Chambre Philharmonique

"Krivine... exudes a sense of bygone elegance, at once dapper and courtly. [He] reveled in the range of colors the score and orchestra offered him, bringing..."Anne Midgette, Washington Post

Julian Kuerti

"From the downbeat, one was immediately struck by Kuerti's natural, genuine musicianship that encouraged musicality as well as precision from his players … the orchestra was in..."Cincinnati Enquirer

Sebastian Lang-Lessing

"So this is how it is going to be with new Music Director Lang-Lessing — programs of bold, vivid, purpose-driven and audience-pleasing music. It is one thing..."San Antonio News

Stephen Lord

"And in no Broadway theater would you hear an orchestra playing as beautifully as members of the St. Louis Symphony did under the devoted guidance of..."Dallas Morning News

Nicola Luisotti

Music Director at San Francisco Opera, Music Director at Teatro San Carlo in Naples

"Conductor Luisotti splendidly drew out the difficult balance between lyricism and larger-than-life epic poetry which made the orchestra play in way that rarely happens at La..."Carlo Lanfossi, Il Giornale della Musica

Cristian Macelaru

Assistant Conductor, Philadelphia Orchestra

Marc Minkowski

Music Director of Les Musiciens du Louvre
Designated Artistic Director of Salzburg Mozartwoche
Music Director of Sinfonia Varsovia

Carlo Montanaro

Music Director at Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa in Warsaw

"Montanaro let the music breathe and unfold in a carefully measured pace, matched flawlessly to the work onstage. "John Terauds, thestar.com

Pier Giorgio Morandi

Principal Guest Conductor at Stockholm Royal Opera House

"Pier Giorgio Morandi in his first Elektra inspires the Royal Orchestra to tremendous playing, the music gushing forth like a lava stream. "Göran Forsling, Seen and Heard

Henrik Nánási

General Musical Director at Komische Oper Berlin

David Newman

Sean O’Loughlin

Jayce Ogren

Shuya Okatsu

Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Principal Conductor - Tonkünstler Orchester

Principal Conductor - Orquesta de Euskadi

"It is his captivating approach that makes the interpretations into something special ...here is a must-see conductor, who, with his wholehearted music-making and oversight of the..."Kronen-Zeitung

Eiji Oue

Conductor Laureate, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hannover
Principal Conductor, Osaka Philharmonic

"This was a performance of intense expressivity, yet also rigorous control."José Luis Vidal, El Mundo Cataluña

Sir Antonio Pappano

Music Director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Music Director, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

"With all three operas conducted by Antonio Pappano, who seems to have an almost mystical feel that always brings out the best in Verdi's music, this..."Express - William Hartston

Murray Perahia

Itzhak Perlman

Libor Pešek

Conductor Laureate, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Principal Guest Conductor, Prague Symphony Orchestra

"Pešek inspired the orchestra with the necessary unanimity of purpose to make the music pay off. The score’s grand sweep sounded thrilling in its..."San Francisco Chronicle by Joshua Kosman

Vasily Petrenko

Chief Conductor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Chief Conductor Designate, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

Principal Conductor, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

"Superb conducting distinguished Glyndebourne’s fine revival of Verdi’s Macbeth. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s maestro Vasily Petrenko may look like an innocent teenager, but..."Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph

Eduardo Portal

Assistant conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Director Antares Ensemble

"Portal and the LPO gave José’s lovely and exhilarating music with sympathy and panache; and in Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat suites the conductor brought fastidious..."Colin Anderson, Classicalsource.com

André Previn

Principal Guest Conductor, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Laureate, London Symphony Orchestra

Gintaras Rinkevicius

Music and Artistic Director, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra in Vilinius, Chief Conductor of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra

Ilyich Rivas

"…With a 17-year-old conductor, Ilyich Rivas, whose imperturbable authority defies belief."The Sunday Times

Pietro Rizzo

Music Director of the Orquesta Joven de la Sinfonica de Galicia

"In the pit, Pietro Rizzo conducted this familiar score with impeccable timing and sense of color; he brought a unique sense of physical space to Verdi�..."D Magazine

Evan Rogister

"Guest conductor Evan Rogister led the orchestra through Tchaikovsky's deeply expressive "Serenade for Strings," Sibelius' broad, stirring Symphony No. 2 and Arutiunian's powerful Concerto for Trumpet and..."Elaine Scmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Giacomo Sagripanti

Case Scaglione

Principal Assistant Conductor, New York Philharmonic

"Scaglione's subtle gestures in the Andante translated to descriptive orchestral color. His exaggerated arm movements in the finale gave the orchestra reason to let loose. It..."The Birmingham News

En Shao

RTV, Chief Conductor;
CNSO Principal guest Conductor;
Taipei Chinese Orchestra Music Director and Principal Conductor 

"En Shao possesses the special gift of sweeping the audience into the orderly yet impassioned music he shapes..."Patricia Kelly, Courier Mail

Dmitry Sitkovetsky

Music Director, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra

"Dmitry Sitkovetsky played the work for all it is worth, which is a great deal, despite its relative rarity in the concert repertoire. Intensity and precision..."www.seenandheard-international.com

Sergey Smbatyan

Artistic Director and Music Director, State Youth Orchestra of Armenia

David Stern

Music Director, The Israeli Opera Tel-Aviv-Yafo
Music Director, Theater St Gallen and Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Founder and Principle Conductor, Opera Fuoco


Principal Conductor, Opera Fuoco
Music Director, St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra and Israel Opera

"The Opera Fuoco orchestra and its conductor David Stern set off musical fireworks thanks to their organic interpretation, as though the music was being played in..."Opera Point, Carola Jakubowksi

Shi-Yeon Sung

Associate Conductor Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

"Sung is capable of telegraphing both energy and musical sensitivity in her every gesture"Boston Globe

Muhai Tang

Chief Conductor - Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra,

Principal Guest Conductor - Hamburg Symphony Orchestra,

Artistic Director - Shanghai Philharmonic,

Artistic Director - Zhenjiang Symphony Orchestra,

Conductor Laureate - China National Symphony Orchestra.

"The 61 year old Chinese conductor has absolutely recommended himself as a Rossini specialist through this premiere performance. The orchestra La Scintilla, which played on historic instruments,..."Elisabeth Schwind, Südkurier

Ramon Tebar

Music Director of Florida Grand Opera
Music Director of Palm Beach Symphony
Associate Conductor of the Santo Domingo Music Festival

"Much of the credit for the performance’s success lay in the pit, where the conductor Ramon Tebar drove the music and action forward all evening,..."Sun-Sentinel (David Fleshler)

Yuri Temirkanov

Music Director and Principal Conductor: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Director: Teatro Regio di Parma
Music Director Emeritus: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

"Temirkanov and his players told stories in music. Everything was direct, vivid and full of character, [...] the playing was visceral, breathless and cinematic."Anthony Tommasini, New York Times

Yan Pascal Tortelier

Principal Conductor, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Emeritus, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

"Attentive to Franck’s meticulous tempi markings Tortelier conferred an enthralling performance of the Symphony in D minor. First movement tensions were penetratingly conveyed, crescendos impressively..."Mike Marsh, Bournemouth Daily Echo

Bramwell Tovey

Music Director, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Principal Guest Conductor, Los Angeles Philharmonic

"Tovey melded rhythmic precision with long, lovingly shaped melodies, characteristics that prevailed throughout the evening"Robert D. Thomas, Music Critic- Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News

Robert Treviño

Associate Conductor, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

"Guest Conductor Robert Treviño – all of 26 years old – left a considerable impression in his CPO debut with incisive and thrilling direction… he is clearly a..."Bryant Manning, Chicago Classical Review

Jaap van Zweden

Music Director, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Music Director Designate, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Honorary Chief Conductor, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Radio Kamer Filharmonie

"I mean it as the highest praise when I say that the Beethoven Seventh van Zweden and the CSO produced was exceptional enough to efface from..."John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune

Alexander Vedernikov

Chief Conductor - Odense Symphony Orchestra,

Chief Conductor - Trondheim Opera

"Alexander Vedernikov conducted brilliantly, and the lurid colours and goose-pimple glissandi of the orchestra were exceptionally vivid."Anna Picard, The Independent

Alberto Veronesi

Music Director, The Opera Orchestra of New York
Music Director, Puccini Festival a Torre del Lago
Artistic Director, Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Music Director, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Benjamin Wallfisch

Music Director Designate - Crested Butte Music Festival (Colorado)

"The youthful vehemence of Wallfisch inspired the orchestra to unusually brilliant, almost unbridled playing."Hamburg Abendblatt

Paul Watkins

Music Director, English Chamber Orchestra
Principal Guest Conductor, Ulster Orchestra

"...an inspiring and energetic conductor who had the orchestra in the palm of his hand from the start [...] the mutual respect between the conductor’s authority..."Fædrelandsvennen

Omer Meir Wellber

Resident Conductor at Raanana Symphonette Orchestra,
Music Director at Palau de les Arts in Valencia

"The young Israeli conductor fulfilled the highest expectations. It is a rare treat to hear and watch a conductor who, at only 29 years, shows the maturity..."José Mª Irurzun, Seen and Heard

Franz Welser-Möst

Music Director, Cleveland Orchestra
Generalmusikdirektor, Vienna Staatsoper

"This was one of the most beautiful New Year's Concerts since Karajan and Kleiber. Franz Welser-Möst knows how the music of the Strauss-dynasty, the music..."Österreich

Keri-Lynn Wilson

Barry Wordsworth

Music Director, Royal Ballet London

Conductor Laureate, BBC Concert Orchestra

Principal Conductor, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

Music Director Laureate, Birmingham Royal Ballet

"The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – under the Royal Ballet's excellent Barry Wordsworth – delivers the 20th century's greatest ballet score with a sonorous expansiveness"The Independent - Review for Romeo & Juliet at the O2 Arena, London

Christian Zacharias

Massimo Zanetti

"…What is splendid about him is not just the fact that he conducts by heart, but his understanding of the opera score...You listen to the..."www.operamagazine.nl

Nikolaj Znaider

Principal Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Orchestra

"The Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider played it like a man possessed: possessed not just by the music’s emotional power and lyrical beauty, but also by..."Richard Morrison, The Times