Robin Ticciati

With the opening of the 2009/10 season, Robin Ticciati begins his tenure as Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and continues his relationship with Glyndebourne. From autumn 2010 he will also become Principle Guest Conductor of Bamberger Symphoniker.

His career has progressed rapidly and he now returns for regular engagements with select orchestras including the Bamberger Symphoniker, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.  The 2009/10 season will see his debut engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra, his US debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and guest engagements with the Toronto Symphony, Danish National and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras, among others.

Ticciati balances orchestral engagements with extensive work in the opera house.  His past operatic projects have included Verdi’s “Macbeth” and “Hänsel & Gretel” at Glyndebourne, Britten’s “Rape of Lucretia” with Ian Bostridge and Angelika Kirschlager on European tour and the Salzburg production of “The Marriage of Figaro” with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on tour in Japan.  He has made his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with “Hänsel & Gretel” and will return to Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House in future seasons, most notably with “Jenufa” and a reprise of “Hänsel & Gretel”.

With his Filarmonica della Scala debut in June 2005, Ticciati became the youngest conductor to conduct at La Scala, Milan and has multiple reinvitations for the future.  He conducted Mozart’s “Il sogno di Scipione” in Salzburg in the summer of 2006, becoming the youngest debut conductor in the history of this famed Austrian festival.  The performance was later released by Deutsche Grammophon (0734249) worldwide.

A violinist, pianist and percussionist by training, London-born 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 Kyrie in D minor.

In 2002, as a member of the National Youth Orchestra, Ticciati won the Arthur Belgin Medal for Most Outstanding Musician of the Year. In 2005 he was the recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship.

Photo © Chris Christodoulou

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