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David Robertson
ConductorDavid Robertson – conductor, composer,
artist, thinker, and American musical visionary – occupies some of the most
prominent platforms on the international music scene. A highly sought-after podium figure in the
worlds of opera, orchestral music, and new music, Robertson is celebrated
worldwide as a champion of contemporary composers, an ingenious and adventurous
programmer, and a masterful communicator whose passionate advocacy for the art
form is widely recognized. A consummate
and deeply collaborative musician, Robertson is hailed for his intensely
committed music making.
To begin the 2023-24 season and continuing a
deep and longstanding relationship, David Robertson returns to his home
orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, to conduct works by Ligeti, including the
US premiere of Mifiso la sodo, Brahms, and the New York premiere of Elena
Firsova’s Piano Concerto with his longtime collaborator Yefim Bronfman. In the Fall, Robertson will return to The
Philadelphia Orchestra to conduct works by Reena Esmail, Haydn, and
Beethoven. Continuing frequent guest
appearances, Robertson will return to the Seattle Symphony in late Fall to
conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, and the second performances of his own
composition, Light forming, a Piano Concerto, written for Orli Shaham and
premiered in 2022. In the Winter period,
Robertson will return to Europe to conduct the Royal Danish Orchestra,
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and
then again in the Spring to conduct the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester-Berlin,
and return to the Prague Spring Festival to conduct the Czech Philharmonic.
In October and December, 2023, Robertson
begins a three year tenure as the Utah Symphony and Opera’s inaugural Creative
Partner with evolutionary concert ideas at three junctures each season. The fall concerts will feature a monumental
focus on the human voice, including Bruckner’s Christus factus est, Act II from
Berg’s Wozzeck, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9; and a poetic sense of place,
with En Saga by Sibelius, Ives’ Three Places in New England, and Schumann’s
“Rhenish” Symphony. The 2023-24 trilogy
of Utah concerts will culminate in the Spring with the first live manifestation
of Robertson’s international guitar ensemble, Another Night on Earth, created
virtually with colleagues from three continents during the lock-down period and
featuring works ranging from the Renaissance to Rock and Roll. In addition to Robertson, the ensemble
includes star artists transcending musical worlds: Joe Gore, Daniele Gottardo,
Jiji, Steven Mackey, Gretchen Menn, James Moore and Heiko Ossig.
In May and June 2024, David Robertson will
conduct two works by his close musical compatriot, John Adams: the oratorio El
Niño, with the Houston Symphony, and Doctor Atomic Symphony with the Minnesota
Orchestra. The 2023-24 season will also
include a visit to Florida’s Naples Philharmonic at Artis-Naples to conduct
works by Schoenberg and Gershwin, with Orli Shaham.
2023-24 is David Robertson’s sixth academic
year as Director of Conducting Studies, Distinguished Visiting Faculty of The
Juilliard School in New York, and he continues his role as a member of the
Tianjin Juilliard Advisory Council, an international body created to guide
Juilliard’s young Chinese campus. He
will conduct the Juilliard Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in April.
David Robertson completed his transformative
13-year tenure as Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 2018,
where he solidified the orchestra’s status as one of the nation’s most enduring
and innovative, and reinvigorated its American and European presence through
regular touring programs. For the SLSO,
he created dynamic relationships with a wide spectrum of artists, and garnered
a 2014 Grammy Award, Best Orchestral Performance, for the Nonesuch release of
John Adams’ City Noir. Among many other
recordings, the historic Robertson-SLSO association, included the 2019 Blue
Engine Records release of Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony, with the Jazz at
Lincoln Center Orchestra. In addition to
Sydney and St. Louis, Robertson has served in artistic leadership positions at
musical institutions including the Orchestre National de Lyon, and, as a
protégé of Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble InterContemporain, which he led on an
extensive North American tour. At the
BBC Symphony Orchestra, he served as Principal Guest Conductor. Robertson has served as a Perspectives Artist
at Carnegie Hall, where he has conducted, among others, The Met Orchestra,
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and The Juilliard
Orchestra. He appears regularly in
Europe with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, the Staatskapelle Dresden, and at
the Berlin Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the BBC Proms, and the Musica Viva
Festival in Munich, among others. Beyond
his longstanding relationship with the New York Philharmonic, Robertson
conducts numerous North American Orchestras, including those of Boston,
Philadelphia, Montréal, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and more. Robertson continues his relationship with the
New Japan Philharmonic and the China NCPA Orchestra.
Building upon his prolific association with
The Metropolitan Opera, Robertson conducted the encore performances in In Fall
2021 of James Robinson’s lauded 2019 production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and
Bess, which featured the returns of Eric Owens and Angel Blue in the lead
roles. Robertson’s musical leadership of
the 2019-20 season Porgy and Bess production premiere was honored at the 63rd
Grammy Awards, in March 2021, as Best Opera Recording. Preceding this rich success, Robertson’s deep
relationship with the Met Opera includes the premiere of Phelim McDermott’s
celebrated 2018 production of Così fan tutte, set in 1950s Coney Island, and,
since his Met debut in 1996 with The Makropulos Case, he has conducted a
breathtaking range of Met projects, including the Met premiere of John Adams’
The Death of Klinghoffer (2014); the 2016 revival of Janáček’s Jenůfa, then its first Met
performances in nearly a decade; the premiere production of Nico Muhly’s Two
Boys (2013); and many favorites, from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro to Britten’s
Billy Budd. Robertson conducts projects
at the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including La Scala, Théâtre du
Châtelet, Bayerische Staatsoper (orchestra), the San Francisco Opera, and the
Santa Fe Opera. In January 2022, David
Robertson made his debut with the Rome Opera conducting Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová to great critical
acclaim.
Robertson is the recipient of numerous
musical and artistic awards, and in 2010 was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France. In addition to his pedagogical Juilliard
roles, he is devoted to supporting young musicians and has worked with students
at the festivals of Aspen, Tanglewood, Lucerne, at the Paris Conservatoire,
Music Academy of the West, and the National Orchestra Institute. In 2014, he led the Coast to Coast US tour of
Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA.
Born in Santa Monica, California, David
Robertson was educated at London’s Royal Academy of Music, where he studied
horn and composition before turning to orchestral conducting. He is married to pianist Orli Shaham, and
lives in New York.