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.