Jonathan
Nott Musical direction

Jonathan Nott is Music Director of the Tokyo Symphony as well as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. In 2017, he also took up the position of Principal Conductor and Music Director at the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Nott works as a guest conductor with the world's leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. As principal conductor with the Bamberg Symphony, he has traveled regularly with the orchestra to the United States, South America, China, Japan, the Salzburg Festival and the BBC Proms. He received high praise for his residency at the Edinburgh Festival in 2003 and returned there with the Bambergers for the two final concerts in September 2012. In 2013 he presented concert performances of the complete 'Ring' at the Lucerne Festival to mark the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth, and conducted Verdi's 'Falstaff' there in 2015, also in concert. In 1997-2002, Nott was principal conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, and from 2000-2003 he was with the Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris. During his tenure in Bamberg, Nott established the Artist in Residence series. For this he collaborated with Vadim Repin, Truls Mørk and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.