Robin Ticciati
conductor
About this Artist
Robin Ticciati OBE has been Music Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin since 2017 and Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera since 2014. He was Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 2009 to 2018.
He is a regular guest with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In recent years, he has also appeared with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Oslo Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, and Deutsche Staatsoper-Berlin. In the US, he has appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
Since becoming Music Director at Glyndebourne, Ticciati has led critically acclaimed new productions of La damnation de Faust, Pelléas et Mélisande, Der Rosenkavalier, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La clemenza di Tito, Dialogues des Carmélites, Káťa Kabanová, Smyth’s The Wreckers, Tristan und Isolde, Carmen, and a double bill of Poulenc’s La voix humaine and Les mamelles de Tirésias.
He has conducted Peter Grimes at Teatro alla Scala, Milan; Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival; and Eugene Onegin at both the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
His highly acclaimed discography includes Berlioz with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Haydn, Schumann, Berlioz, and Brahms with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Dvořák, Bruckner, and Brahms with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra; and Bruckner, Debussy, Duruflé, Duparc, Fauré, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, and Strauss with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Born in London, Robin Ticciati is a violinist, pianist, and percussionist by training. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain when, at age 15, he turned to conducting under the guidance of Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle. He held the position of Sir Colin Davis Fellow of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music. Ticciati was awarded an OBE for services to music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (2019).