CONDUCTOR
Conductor and composer, former music director of Sidney Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, BBC Symphony, Ensemble InterContemporain in collaboration with Pierre Boulez, Jerusalem Symphony, he is currently based in New York.
In January 2022, he conducted the première of Janáček’s Kat’a Kabanova in Roma, production by Richard Jones. He was invited by Metropolitan Opera where he conducted Janáček’s The Makropulos Case and Jenufa, Britten’s Billy Budd, the world première of Nico Muhly’s Two Boys, the world première of John Adams’ The death of Klinghoffer, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte directed by Phelim McDermott.
He was nominated Conductor of the Year in 2000, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2011, and in 2014 he received the Grammy Award for the best performance of John Adams’ City Noir recorded with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
David Robertson conducted concerts with Filarmonica della Scala and operas at La Scala ( the première of Luciano Berio’s Outis, Strawinsky’s The rake’s progress), at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmoniker, Bayerische Rundfunk, Dresden Staatskapelle, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, NCPA Beijing, Berlin Festival, Edinburgh Festival, BBC Proms, Musica Viva Festival, Théâtre du Châtelet, Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburg Staatsoper, San Francisco Opera.
He has recorded CDs for DGG and Sony.
He has conducted operas and symphonic compositions by Pierre Boulez, Christopher Rouse, Wynton Marsalis, John Adams, Benjamin Britten, André Previn, Louis Andriessen, Olivier Messiaen.
He is cooperating with young musicians at Julliard School , Aspen Festival, Tanglewood, Lucerne, Paris Conservatoire, Music Academy of the West, National Orchestra Institute. In 2014 he conducted the Coast-to-Coast tour of the National Youth Orchestra of the USA sponsored by Carnegie Hall.
Born in Santa Monica, California, David Robertson trained at Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied horn, composition and conducting.
Upcoming engagements include concerts with New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, DSO Berlin, Muenchen, Ljubljana, Seoul Philharmonic and he will return to Seattle to conduct the Symphony Orchestra in June 2025 and in August 2025 Chicago Symphony Orchestra and then at Lucerne Festival.
