Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
JONATHAN NOTT
Well known for the power, vigour and clarity of his interpretations of Mahler’s works, Jonathan Nott has been music director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra since 2014. In 2018, recording of Symphony No.10 by Mahler and Symphony No.9 by Bruckner won the Best Recording of the 31th Music Pen Club Music Award.
After studying music at the University of Cambridge, singing and flute at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and conducting in London, he began his career at the opera houses in Mrankfurt and Wiesbaden where he conducted all major works of the repertoire including Wagner’s complete Ring cycle.
The year 1997 marked the beginning of a special relationship with Switzerland: as principal conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra he took an active part in the inaugural period of the new KKL where he also performed with the Ensemble Intercontemporain founded by Pierre Boulez, and of which he was the music director from 2000 to 2003.
His sixteen years as principal conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra from 2000 until 2016 were filled with varied and enriching experiences: he created artist-in-residence programmes, went on several international tours with the orchestra, he received a Midem Award in 2010 for his recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, and he launched the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition from which have emerged some of today’s world famous conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel and Lahav Shani.
He was also appointed as Music and Artistic Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande as from 2017 and had been principal conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for 16 years.
He brings inspiration to young artists through his loyal and long term commitment to the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and to the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
Jonathan Nott has a large catalogue of highly acclaimed recordings, including Ligeti’s complete orchestral works performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, the entire Schubert and Mahler Symphonies played by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Jonas Kaufmann as soloist. His first recording with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande of works by Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and Gyorgy Ligeti was released by PentaTone in September 2018.
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