Jonathan Nott
direction
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In concert
Art of Metal - 03.27Performer website
https://www.osr.ch/lorchestre/directeur-musical-et-artistiqueWell known for the power, vigour and clarity of his interpretations of Mahler's works, Jonathan Nott was invited in 2014 to conduct the musicians of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in a performance of Mahler's Seventh Symphony. As a result of this very promising first meeting, he was appointed as Music and Artistic Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande as from January 2017. After studying music at the University of Cambridge, singing and flute at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and conducting in London, he began his career at the opera houses in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden where he conducted all major works of the repertoire including Wagner's complete Ring cycle. The year 1997 marked the beginning of a special relationship with Switzerland : as principal conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra he took an active part in the inaugural period of the new KKL where he also performed with the Ensemble Intercontemporain founded by Pierre Boulez, and of which he was the music director from 2000 to 2003. His sixteen years as principal conductor of the
Jonathan Nott has a large catalogue of highly acclaimed recordings, including Ligeti's complete orchestral works performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, the entire Schubert and Mahler Symphonies played by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Jonas Kaufmann as soloist. His first recording with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande of works by Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and György Ligeti was released by PentaTone in September 2018.