Robin Ticciati has been music director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin since 2017 and Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera since 2014. He was Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 2009–18. He is a regular guest with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In recent years, he has also appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Dresden Staatskapelle, and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In the United States, he has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in January 2023.

His acclaimed discography includes Berlioz with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Haydn, Schumann, Berlioz and Brahms with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Dvořák, Bruckner and Brahms with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra; and Bruckner, Debussy, Duruflé, Duparc, Fauré, Ravel, and Bruckner with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

Born in London, Ticciati is a violinist, pianist and percussionist by training. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain when, aged 15, he turned to conducting under the guidance of Colin Davis and Simon Rattle. He is now the Sir Colin Davis Fellow of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded an OBE for services to music in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

In the 2022–23 season Alina Ibragimova performs with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, London Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, and Cologne’s Gürzenich-Orchester. She also begins a two-year Mozart cycle with Kammerorchester Basel and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout. Last season’s highlights included returns to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Mahler Chamber Orchestra collaborating with Daniel Harding, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Maxim Emelyanychev, among others. She recently performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Zurich Tonhalle, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

In recital, Ms. Ibragimova regularly performs at London’s Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal; Salzburg’s Mozarteum; Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie; and at the Royal Albert Hall, where she performed Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin at the BBC Proms. This season she continues her longstanding partnership with pianist Cédric Tiberghien with concerts across Europe and North America. Ms. Ibragimova is a founding member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet, one of the world’s most sought-after period ensembles.

(12/2022)