Robin Ticciati OBE 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 Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Guest-conducting highlights in recent years also include the Wiener Philharmoniker, Czech Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Staatskapelle Dresden.
Since becoming Music Director at Glyndebourne, he has conducted new productions of »La damnation de Faust«, »Pelléas et Mélisande«, »Rosenkavalier«, »Entführung« and »La clemenza di Tito«. Highlights as a guest opera conductor include »Peter Grimes« at La Scala, »Le nozze di Figaro« at the Salzburg Festival, and »Eugene Onegin« at both the Royal Opera House and The 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, Robin Ticciati is a violinist, pianist and percussionist by training. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain when, aged fifteen, he turned to conducting under the guidance of Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle. He holds the position of »Sir Colin Davis Fellow of Conducting« at the Royal Academy of Music. Robin was awarded an OBE for services to music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (2019).
The 2022/23 season will see Robin on tour with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He makes debuts with the San Francisco Symphony and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, and will return to conduct the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Wiener Symphoniker. He conducts Poulenc’s »Dialogues des Carmelites« and Stravinsky’s »The Rake’s Progress« at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.