Robin Ticciati has been Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra since the 2009/2010 season and Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera since the summer of 2014. He took up his position as Music Director of Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in September 2017.
In the current and next seasons, the 34-year old conductor will return to Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Staatskapelle Dresden, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Vienna Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France and Czech Philharmonic. In November 2016 he toured with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter, performing concerts at Vienna’s Musikverein, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Gasteig in Munich and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. In the 2014/2015 season Robin Ticciati led a European tour of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and could be heard at the Konzerthaus in Vienna in the context of a residency with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony. From 2010 to 2013 he was First Guest Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony.
During his first two seasons as Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival, Robin Ticciati conducted new productions of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail and a revival of the Ravel double bill with L’heure espagnole and Lʼenfant et les sortilèges. In the current season he will conduct the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a new production of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito (directed by Claus Guth). Besides Glyndebourne, in the recent past Robin Ticciati conducted Britten’s Peter Grimes at La Scala in Milan, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival, Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin at the Royal Opera House in London, and gave his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. In March 2017 he successfully returned to the Met with Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin.
In his eighth season as Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) Robin Ticciati focused on contemporary composers, as well as works by Bruckner, Mozart and Strauss; in the forthcoming 2017/2018 season the backbone of his program will be Dvořák. Tours have led him with SCO through Europe and to Asia, as well as the Edinburgh International Festival. Their recordings on the Linn Records label – symphonies by Haydn, two Berlioz albums and a complete recording of Schumann’s symphonies – received numerous awards and were enthusiastically received by the critics. Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin presented their debut CD with works by Debussy and Fauré in September 2017, also on the Linn Records label.
Robin Ticciati was born in London and trained first as a violinist, pianist and percussionist. He played in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain until he turned to conducting at the age of 15. His mentors and patrons include Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle. In 2014 he was appointed the “Sir Colin Davis Fellow of Conducting” at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
