Jonathan Nott to conduct the OSR
Neeme Järvi's successor at the helm of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande will be British conductor Jonathan Nott. The new Music and Artistic Director will take up his post in the 2016-2017 season.
Born in 1962 in Solihull, UK, Jonathan Nott trained in singing, flute and conducting at Cambridge, Manchester and London, and is currently Principal Conductor of the Bamberger Symphoniker (since 2000), Music Director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (since 2014) and Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (since 2014).
His professional career, which has taken him from the Operas of Frankfurt and Wiesbaden to the Ensemble Intercontemporain, via the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, has enabled him to take on - outside the symphonic repertoire - a vast operatic and contemporary repertoire. A specialist in the Germanic repertoire, Jonathan Nott follows in the footsteps of the musical directors who led the OSR down the path of Haydn, Beethoven, Wagner, Bruckner and Mahler.
Jonathan Nott will take up his post in January 2017, after an interim 2015-2016 season without a music director, which will leave a significant place for the younger generation of conductors.
