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Katharina Ronnefeld

Director & Manager: Artists & Touring
Doris Franze

Doris Franze

Associate Manager: Artists & Attractions; Manager: Financial Operations

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European & Asian management with Askonas Holt

Partner Managers:
Opus 3 Artists (general management)

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About David

Inaugural Creative Partner: Utah Symphony and Opera

David Robertson was Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Ensemble InterContemporain.

The 2024/25 season takes David to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Philadelphia Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester, The Cleveland Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. With the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, he tours Central Europe with violinist Gil Shaham. 

Highlights of recent seasons include the Seattle Symphony, Royal Danish Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Minnesota Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. 

Since his 1996 Metropolitan Opera debut, Robertson has conducted several productions at the Met, including the 2019/20 season premiere production of Porgy and Bess for which he earned a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2021. At the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, he conducted Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová. 

David serves on the Tianjin Juilliard Advisory Council, complementing his role as Director of Conducting Studies, Distinguished Visiting Faculty of The Juilliard School, New York.

David is based in New York

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European & Asian management with Askonas Holt

Partner Managers:
Opus 3 Artists (general management)

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg / Wunderino Arena Kiel
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No.10 (Ratz) Schönberg: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op.42 Gershwin: Variations on "I Got Rhythm" Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
Nov 2024
Gewandhaus, Leipzig
Webern: Passacaglia Op.1 Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ("Dem Andenken eines Engels") Wagner: Overture "Tristan und Isolde" WWV90 Schönberg: Monodram "Erwartung" Op.17 Augustin Hadelich (violin) Aušrinė Stundytė (soprano) Gewandhausorchester
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Severance Music Center, Cleveland
Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Ellington: New World A-Comin' Copland: Suite from The Tender Land Marc-André Hamelin (piano) The Cleveland Orchestra

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Sample Programmes

  • Beethoven: Choral Fantasy in C minor, Op.80 Interval Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op.125

  • Chopin/Stravinsky: Nocturne in A-flat major, Op.32, No.1 (Instrumentation by Stravinsky) Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra D major, Op.35 Interval Stravinsky: Petrushka

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  • Ligeti, Firsova and Brahms with New York Philharmonic

    David Geffen Hall, New York
    Oct 2023

    • It’s always a good sign when an orchestra’s players light up with smiles at a conductor. And on Thursday night at David Geffen Hall, that happened over and over, with grins passing between the musicians of the New York Philharmonic and its podium guest, David Robertson, throughout a beguiling, smart program.

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