After studying music at Cambridge University, voice and flute at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and orchestral conducting in London, Jonathan Nott began his career at the Frankfurt and Wiesbaden Operas, where he conducted the leading standard repertory, including the RingRing with Siegfried Jerusalem.

 

 

He was previously Principal Conductor of the Lucerne Symphony from 1997 to 2002, then Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris from 2000 to 2003 and Principal Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony from 2000 to 2016. His appointment as the OSR’s Music and Artistic Director started in 2017.

 

 

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger has rapidly established himself as one of the most gifted musicians of his generation. Awarded the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Prize by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2010, and the Hervé Dugardin Prize of the Sacem in 2015, after graduation he became a finalist in the 2004 Long-Thibaud International Competition.

 

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger performs with the world’s most prestigious orchestras: New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia, London Philharmonic...

 

 

Recent highlights include performances of Mantra by Stockhausen with Jean-François Heisser at Musica Strasbourg Festival and on tour in Brazil; Bartók Piano Concerto No. 2 in Wroclaw with Pascal Rophé, Schumann Piano Concerto in Boston with Christoph von Dohnányi and the US premiere of his piece Plein Ciel at the Lincoln Center in New York.

 

 

Founded in 1918 by Ernest Ansermet, who was its principal conductor until 1967, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) is made up of 112 permanent musicians. It gives subscription concerts in Geneva and Lausanne, symphonic programmes for the City of Geneva, the annual United Nations Day concert and accompanies operatic performances at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva.

 

Over the decades, the OSR has built up an international reputation thanks to its historic recordings and its interpretation of the 20th century French and Russian repertories.

 

 

The OSR’s international tours have taken it to the leading concert halls in Europe (Berlin, London, Vienna, Salzburg, Paris, Amsterdam) and Asia (Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing), as well as the most important music centres in the Americas (Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Montevideo).

 

It is highly sought after by the most prestigious festivals, (Canaries, Lucerne Easter and Summer, Radio France and Montpellier, the Menuhin in Gstaad, Montreux’s Septembre Musical and the BBC Proms in London).

 

1. Schumann: Piano Concerto No. 1

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1. Mahler: Symphony No. 6