About this Artist
Ludovic Morlot is Music Director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director of the Seattle Symphony from 2011 to 2019, where he earned the orchestra five Grammy Awards and now conducts several weeks every season as Conductor Emeritus. He was Associate Artist of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra from 2019 to 2024. A founding member of the National Youth Orchestra of China, he was Artistic Director from 2017 to 2021. He also served as Chief Conductor of La Monnaie from 2012 to 2014.
In the 2024/25 season, Morlot takes the Barcelona Symphony to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Aix Easter Festival, and l’Auditorium in his home city of Lyon, on the back of their successes last season at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and Stockholm Royal Concert Hall. They continue their acclaimed Ravel CD cycle, champion Catalan composers on the orchestra’s own label, and repeat their hugely popular concert on the beach (20,000 live attendance, 30,000 online). Guest highlights include a return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boulez celebrations at Manchester Bridgewater Hall with the BBC Philharmonic, and two opera productions—Pelléas et Mélisande at Dallas Opera and Part 2 of Les Troyens at Seattle Opera, where over the past three seasons Morlot has had great success with Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Samson et Dalila.
Morlot has guested with the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Philharmonic, and Budapest Festival orchestras and with many leading North American orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and Philadelphia orchestras. He also appears extensively in Asia and Australasia, notably with the Seoul Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, and Melbourne Symphony orchestras. Festival appearances include the BBC Proms, Wien Modern, Edinburgh, Aspen, and Grant Park festivals.
Ludovic Morlot is represented by Intermusica.