2011-12 Guest Conductors

Jiří Bělohlávek

The renowned Czech maestro Jiří Bělohlávek took up the position of Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in July 2006. In September 2012 he will become the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, a post he previously held from 1990 - 1992.
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Myung-Whun Chung

Myung-Whun Chung began his musical career as a pianist, making his debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at the age of seven. In 1974 he won the second prize at the Tchaikovsky piano competition in Moscow.
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Stéphane Denève

Stéphane Denève is Chief Conductor Designate of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR), and takes up the position from September 2011. He is also Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, a post he has held since 2005.
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Christoph von Dohnányi

Christoph von Dohnányi is recognized as one of the world's pre-eminent orchestral and opera conductors.
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Charles Dutoit

Chief conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as artistic director and principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic, beginning in 2009, and music director of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Charles Dutoit regularly collaborates with the world's leading orchestras.
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Christoph Eschenbach

In demand as a distinguished guest conductor with the finest orchestras and opera houses throughout the world, Christoph Eschenbach begins his tenure in September 2010 as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra.
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Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

A regular guest with North America's top orchestras, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will conduct the Cincinnati, Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Montreal Symphony Orchestras in the 2011-12 season, and returns to the New York Philharmonic for the fourth time since 2005.
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Bernard Haitink

LaCroix Family Fund Conductor Emeritus

endowed in perpetuity

With an international conducting career that has spanned more than five decades, Amsterdam-born Bernard Haitink is one of today's most celebrated conductors.
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Kurt Masur

Kurt Masur is well known to orchestras and audiences alike as both a distinguished conductor and humanist. In September 2002, Mr. Masur became Music Director of the Orchestre National de France in Paris.
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Juanjo Mena

Juanjo Mena is one of the most renowned Spanish conductors on the international circuit. He was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao (1999- 2008) and Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova (2007- 2010).
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Ludovic Morlot

Quickly establishing a strong reputation as one of the leading conductors of his generation, Ludovic Morlot was appointed Music Director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in June 2010, a post he assumes in September 2011 for an initial period of six years.
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Andris Nelsons

Andris Nelsons is one of the most sought-after young conductors on the international scene today, earning himself a distinguished name both on the opera and concert podiums.
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Sean Newhouse

Assistant Conductor

Sean Newhouse made an acclaimed last-minute debut with the Boston Symphony in February 2011, conducting Mahler's Ninth Symphony on two hours' notice in place of James Levine.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Conductor

Conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen was born in Helsinki in 1958 and studied at the Sibelius Academy. In 1979, he made his conducting debut with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Juraj Valcuha

Slovakian Juraj Valcuha studied composition, conducting and cymbalon at the Bratislava Conservatory. He spent two years in St. Petersburg and studied conducting with Ilya Musin.
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David Zinman

David Zinman's tenures, first in Baltimore and now in Zurich, have been distinguished by his programming of an extraordinarily broad repertoire, his strong commitment to the performance of contemporary music, and his introduction of historically informed performance practice.
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Jaap van Zweden

Jaap van Zweden was born in 1960 in Amsterdam and began his musical life as a violinist before moving from stage to podium.
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