Christopher Warren-Green

Music Director

Music Director of the Charlotte Symphony and Chamber , this season Christopher Warren-Green makes his debut with the Detroit and Milwaukee symphony orchestras and the Zürcher Kammerorchester, and will return to the London Philharmonic, Sapporo Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras.

In North America, Warren-Green has worked with the Minnesota on several occasions, and made an acclaimed debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2007. He has also performed with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, and the Houston, St Louis, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras.

Last season he conducted the at the Royal Festival Hall, made his debut with the Orchestre National de Belgique, and performed with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Dublin. He also conducted the London Chamber Orchestra in the closing concert of the Berlin International Music Festival in August 2011.

Elsewhere in the UK, Warren-Green has also worked with the BBC Concert, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National orchestras. Further afield, he has appeared at the Bucharest-based Enescu Festival with the Chamber Orchestra of the Romanian National Radio Society and has conducted concerts with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra. Warren-Green has also worked with the Singapore and NHK symphony orchestras and he frequently collaborates with La Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Brussels. Previous orchestral appointments have included Principal Conductor of the Camerata Resident Orchestra of the Megaron Athens, taking over from Sir Neville Marriner (2004-2009), Chief Conductor of the Nordiska Kammar Orkestern (1998-2005), and Chief Conductor of the Jönköpings Sinfonietta (1998-2001).

Warren-Green has been personally invited to conduct on many occasions for the Royal Family in the last thirty years. In April 2011, Warren-Green conducted the London Chamber Orchestra during the marriage ceremony of HRH Prince William Duke of Cambridge and HRH Duchess of Cambridge at , which was televised to millions worldwide. Other recent occasions included Her Majesty the Queen’s 80th birthday celebrations at and HRH Prince of Wales’s 60th birthday concert. Warren-Green also directed the Philharmonia Orchestra for the Service of Dedication and Prayer (celebrating the marriage of HRH Prince of Wales and HRH Duchess of Cornwall) in 2005.

Warren-Green is a regular on television and radio, and in summer 2008, he featured on the BBC’s high-profile television series ‘Maestro’. He has recorded extensively for Sony, Philips, Virgin EMI, Chandos and Deutsche Grammophon, and regularly records with London Chamber Orchestra for Signum Classics.