Robin Ticciati conductor

Fellowship Winner 2005

Robin Ticciati became Music Director and Artistic Advisor to the Gävle Symphony Orchestra (Sweden) in 2006 and Music Director of Glyndebourne on Tour (GOT) in 2007. A violinist, pianist and percussionist, London-born Robin Ticciati turned to conducting at the age of 15 under the guidance of Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle, while still a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. During his studies at St Paul’s School he conducted the John Colet Singers in a number of works culminating in a performance of Mozart’s Mass in D minor. He also conducted Mozart’s Bastien et Bastienne. His career has progressed rapidly with recent engagements including the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, as well as acclaimed opera revivals in Stuttgart and Zürich and a new production in Klagenfurt. With his Filarmonica della Scala debut in June 2005, Robin Ticciati became the youngest conductor to conduct at La Scala, Milan. He conducted Mozart’s Il sogno di Scipione at Salzburg Festival in the summer of 2006. This performance was also later released by Deutsche Grammophon worldwide. He made his debut in the 2006/07 season with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, returning for re-engagements in Bamberg, in Milan with Filarmonica della Scala and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, among others. His forthcoming projects at Glyndebourne include Verdi’s Macbeth with GOT in autumn 2007. His Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut was in May 2007, with the first revival of Nicholas Hytner’s new production of Così fan tutte.

Last updated: September 2007