Conductor: Daniel Harding

Born in Oxford, conductor Daniel Harding began his career assisting Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with which he made his professional debut in 1994. He went on to assist Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic and made his debut with the orchestra at the 1996 Berlin Festival. Mr. Harding is music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris. He holds the lifetime title of conductor laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In 2018 he was named artistic director of the Anima Mundi Festival.

 

 

In the 2018–19 season he embarks on tours with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Europe, Orchestre de Paris in Japan, Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Australia, Japan, and China, and the Royal Concergebouw Orchestra in the US, culminating at Carnegie Hall. He conducts two projects with the Berlin Philharmonic, including the Europakonzert at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

 

 

Presenter: SSO

 

Bass-baritone: Shenyang

 

1. Tchaikovsky: Overture 1812, Op.49 16’
2. Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op.11 14’
3. Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op.20 17’
4. Schubert: Lieder TBC
(Bass-baritone: Shenyang)
5. Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26 8’