IMG Artists is delighted to welcome conductor Elias Grandy to its roster for General Management. He will be represented by Pierig Stefan Escher from the London office.

Grandy’s tenure as General Music Director in Heidelberg will end this summer, and he now focuses on his international career which brings him to many acclaimed orchestras in Europe, America and Japan. Future highlights include projects with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Utah Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, National Youth Orchestra of Germany, Sapporo Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony and Qatar Philharmonic, as well as the Semperoper Dresden.

Grandy said, “I am thrilled to join the IMG Artists roster and begin my collaboration with Pierig Stefan Escher and his experienced London team. In my eight years as General Music Director I gained a lot of experience in opera and symphonic repertoire, as well as leading a big house and expanding the audience in the city of Heidelberg. This chapter will end this summer and I am ready for new musical adventures. IMGA is the perfect partner to support my artistic vision and I am very much looking forward to the coming years.”

Escher said, “I am honoured to work with a dynamic musician of deep insight, who has built a name as conductor in the fields of opera as well as with symphonic repertoire within only a few years. Elias Grandy is ready for the next step in his career and I very much look forward to supporting and building on his many international projects.”

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