Robin Ticciati was born in London in 1983 and studied music at Clare College Cambridge; he never trained formally as a conductor, but was mentored by Simon Rattle and the late Colin Davis.

 

In 2005 he founded the Aurora chamber ensemble, and later that same year became the youngest conductor ever to appear at La Scala when he stepped in for Riccardo Muti.

 

His first major post was as chief conductor of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra in Sweden (a position which he held from 2006 to 2009), and in 2008 he was announced as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with whom he made well-regarded recordings of Brahms, Haydn, Schumann and Berlioz on Linn Records.

 

Other posts include music director at the Glyndebourne Festival (which he took up in 2014), Principal Guest Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (2010-2013), and principal conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (with effect from the 2017-18 season).

 

She started learning to play the violin at the age of four. At age eight, she became the leader of the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain.

 

By the age of nine, she had already passed the eight grades of musical examinations while attending the independent Wellington School, Ayr, and in September 1997 began to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School for young musicians under Baron Menuhin and Natasha Boyarskaya in rural Surrey, England.

 

At the end of her first year (1998), she played solo in the school's annual concert at Wigmore Hall, and performed in London and Paris as a soloist in Bach's Double Violin Concerto (together with Alina Ibragimova). She played in a memorial concert at Westminster Abbey celebrating the life and work of Yehudi Menuhin.

 

 

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.

 

 

1. Richard Strauss | Don Juan

2. Mendelssohn | Violin Concerto in E Minor

3. Mahler | Symphony No.1 in D Major