Robin Ticciati OBE has been the Music Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) since the 2017-18 season. In the summer of 2014, he took on the role of Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. From 2009 to 2017, he held the position of Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO), and from 2010 to 2013 was First Guest Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony.

 

 

The young Briton with Italian roots has in the recent past conducted such renowned orchestras as the Vienna Symphony, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France and the Czech Philharmonic.

 

 

Nicola Benedetti is one of the most sought-after violinists of her generation. Her ability to captivate audiences with her innate musicianship and dynamic presence, coupled with her wide appeal as a high-profile advocate for classical music, has made her one of the most influential classical artists of today.

 

 

For more than 70 years, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin) has distinguished itself as one of Germany's leading orchestras. The number of renowned music directors, the scope and variety of its work, and its particular emphasis on modern and contemporary music, makes the ensemble unique. Founded as the RIAS Symphony Orchestra in 1946, it was renamed the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin in 1956 and has borne its current name since 1993.

 

 

Robin Ticciati has led the DSO as its music director since 2017. In his first two seasons, he has already impressively demonstrated the enormous breadth of his proficiency and the great agreement that has grown up between him and the orchestra.

 

The high points of his second season included a staged version of Händel’s Messiah in the Berlin Philharmonie and interpretations of Johannes Brahms’s symphonies acclaimed by both the public and the press. In the 2019-20 season, the DSO music director will shift his focus to Antonín Dvořák’s oeuvre, as well as turning increasingly to works by American and contemporary composers.

 

1. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1  

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1. Mahler: Symphony No. 1