Ludovic Morlot

He has also been Associate Artist of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra since 2019. He was Artistic Director and a founding member of the National Youth Orchestra of China 2017-2021, and Chief Conductor of La Monnaie from 2012-2014 conducting new productions in Brussels and at the Aix Easter Festival - including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenufa and Pelléas et Mélisande.

This season Morlot takes the Barcelona Symphony to the Elbphilharmonie and Stockholm Royal Concert Hall. They will record all of Ravel’s orchestral works in a new edition co-edited by Morlot in to mark the 150th anniversary in 2025 of the composer’s birth.

Guest highlights of 2023/24 include Strasbourg Philharmonic with Joyce di Donato, the North American premiere of a new work by Betsy Jolas with San Francisco, Bent Sorensen’s St Matthew Passion with the Danish National, John Luther Adam’s Vespers with City of Birmingham Symphony, and Lowell Liebermann and Saint-Saens organ concerti at the Oregon Bach Festival.

This season he also conducts a staged production of Rheingold at Seattle Opera, following on hugely successful concertante performances of Die Walküre and Samson et Dalila. Morlot has previously guested with the Berliner Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Philharmonic, and Budapest Festival orchestras, and with many of the leading North American orchestras, notably the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago, and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras. He has also appeared 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.

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