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.

This season Francesco Piemontesi appears with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and Filarmonica della Scala. With Robin Ticciati, he performs with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and tours with the London Philharmonic, and makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with these performances.

Piemontesi has also appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and Israel Philharmonic. He is regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, as well as the BBC Proms.

His recordings include Ravel’s Piano Concerto, Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques, and Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto for Pentatone; Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage for Orfeo; and Mozart’s piano concertos with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra on Linn Records. Piemontesi also demonstrated his deep affinity with Debussy in his recording of the Préludes for Naïve.

Born in Locarno, Switzerland, Piemontesi studied with Arie Vardi before working with Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Cécile Ousset, and Alexis Weissenberg. He rose to international prominence with prizes at several major competitions, including the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Since 2012, he has been artistic director of the Settimane Musicali di Ascona.