Biography

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 conductor with the London Philharmonic, London Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Highlights in recent years also include the Vienna Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, La Scala, Salzburg Festival, Royal Opera House, and Metropolitan Opera.

His highly 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 Debussy, Duruflé, Duparc, Fauré, Ravel, and Bruckner with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

Born in London, Mr. Ticciati is a violinist, pianist, and percussionist by training. He was a member of the National Youth Orcestra 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.

(12/2022)