Daniel Harding
Conductor
Daniel Harding joins the LA Phil as its Music Director starting in the 27/28 season, spearheading the LA Phil’s evolving artistic leadership team. Acclaimed for his artistic leadership and craftsmanship, Harding’s repertoire is wide-ranging, from award winning recordings of baroque music to countless premieres of new works.
Daniel Harding is the Music and Artistic Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris from 2016 – 2019 and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 2007 – 2017. He is honoured with the lifetime title of Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has worked for over 20 years. In 2024 he will take up the position of Music Director of the Youth Music Culture, The Greater Bay Area (YMCG) for a five-year term, and that same season will take up the position of Music Director of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
He is a regular visitor to the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. In the U.S., he has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony.
Daniel Harding conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Watch Daniel Harding conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic in an excerpt of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 at the Hollywood Bowl in 2025. Daniel Harding joins the LA Phil as its Music Director starting in the 27/28 season, spearheading the LA Phil’s evolving artistic leadership team. Acclaimed for his artistic leadership and craftsmanship, Harding’s repertoire is wide-ranging, from award winning recordings of baroque music to countless premieres of new works.
Harding’s recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Mahler Symphony No. 10 with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, received widespread critical acclaim. For Virgin/EMI he has recorded Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brahms’ Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra (winner of a Grammy Award for best opera recording), Don Giovanni and The Turn of the Screw with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, works by Lutosławski with soprano Solveig Kringelborn and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and works by Britten with tenor Ian Bostridge and the Britten Sinfonia.
In 2002, Harding was awarded the title Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and in 2017 was nominated to the position of Officier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2021, he was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours. He is a qualified airline pilot.
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Watch & Listen
Dodgers with Dudamel, traffic and In-N-Out. A day in L.A. with the LA Phil’s new music director
The LA Times rides along with the LA Phil's newly minted music director, Daniel Harding, as the conductor takes in his new city.
An L.A. day with the LA Phil's new music director
One early morning this week, Daniel Harding, the LA Phil's new music director, touched down at LAX and immediately went to In-N-Out.
The Art of Conducting with Daniel Harding
Daniel Harding talks to us about how one gets into conducting at a very young age, about how his initial sound idea evolves during the rehearsal process, about the similarities between piloting an aircraft & conducting an orchestra and much more!
Meet the Conductor and Pilot
A few days ago, the European tour of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia came to an end—the first tour with our new Music Director, Daniel Harding. It was an experience far from ordinary for many reasons, which you can discover in this report!
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