Conductor

Rumon Gamba

Chief Conductor and Music Director: Iceland Symphony Orchestra

“Rumon Gamba conducted with impressive clarity…..The late Symphonic Dances may be his [Rachmaninov’s] masterpiece, but this score seldom sounds as good as it did here under Gamba’s lucid direction.”

– John Allison, The Times, April 2005

Rumon works regularly with the BBC orchestras and conducted the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the BBC Proms in September 2005. As well as returning to several orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba’s upcoming engagements include the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and his debut with the Osaka Philharmonic. Following a triumphant performance of Bernstein’s Candide with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, he makes his opera house debut with Candide in 2008 at the English National Opera.

He has recently given several high profile premieres including the Icelandic premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Scherzoid, a co-commission with New York and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Viola Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and he conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the many forces required for the world premiere of Per Norgard’s oratorio, The Will O The Wisps Go To Town, commissioned in celebration of Hans Christian Andersen’s 200th birthday anniversary.

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