Jiří Rožeň’s international presence continues to grow rapidly in the 2019/20 season as he makes his debuts with leading European orchestras and continues to develop his reputation as one of the foremost interpreters of Czech repertoire.
This season his international standing grows with debuts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. He also conducts all the major orchestras in Belgium – Orchestre national de Belgique, Brussels Philharmonic, Antwerp Symphony as well as Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, and appears elsewhere with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony, Poznan Philharmonic, Staatsorchester Kassel and the Romanian Radio National Orchestra. Upcoming soloist collaborations feature internationally recognised names such as Kian Soltani, Victor-Julien Lafferière, Lukáš Vondráček, Marc Bouchkov, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Mahan Esfahani, Eric Lu, and Francesca Dego.
In 2019/20 Jiří Rožeň appears at two prestigious international festivals, returning to Prague Spring Festival with PKF-Prague Philharmonia and debuting in China at the Forest Festival in Nanjing with Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra. As a passionate and knowledgeable advocate of Czech music, he regularly presents standard Czech repertoire, as well as music by Bohuslav Martinů, Josef Suk, Leoš Janáček, Viktor Kalabis and Miloslav Kabeláč. He has conducted one of his signature works, Symphony No.4 by Miloslav Kabeláč on various occasions including Austrian premiere with Camerata Salzburg at Salzburg Festival and his conducting debut at Prague Spring Festival with PKF-Prague Philharmonia.
