Jaap van Zweden
Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Mahler 6
Muscular Mahler 6 as Chicago Symphony makes Prague Spring debut
With Jaap van Zweden on the podium, the orchestra offered a brawny, dynamic reading that barreled off the Municipal House stage like a thunderstorm coming in off Lake Michigan.
Bachtrack (May 21, 2025)Grafenegg Festival - Beethoven 7
The best Beethoven -Interpretation came from Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden made its last foreign orchestral guest appearance at the Grafenegg Festival – and showed a special affinity for Beethoven .
Die Presse (September 6, 2025)Representation
Worldwide general management (excluding Asia except Japan)
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Season 25/26 and Highlights
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1
Respighi – Pines of Rome
Sep 11/12
SEOUL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Brahms – Symphony No. 1
Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Sep 25/26
SEOUL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Shin – Upon His Ghostly Solitude
Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto
Oct 1/2
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ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
Escaich – Arising Dances
Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major
Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet Suite
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 1
Oct 14/15/16/19/21/22
SEOUL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9
Nov 27/28
SEOUL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Wagner – Tristan and Isolde
Dec 4/5/6/7
SEOUL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
Dec 18/19
HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC
Gubaidulina – Viola Concerto
Mozart – Requiem
Jan 16/17
ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUWORKEST
Zarina – Blum
Korngold – Violin Concerto
Wagner – Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Jan 21/22/23/25
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major
Bruckner – Symphony No. 7
Jan 29/30/31
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Thompson – To See the Sky
Bruch – Violin Concerto in G Minor
Mozart – Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"
Feb 12/13/14/15
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3
Beethoven – Symphony No. 7
Feb 19/20/21
TONHALLE-ORCHESTER ZÜRICH
Lalo – Cello Concerto
Bruckner – Symphony No. 7
Feb 25/26/28
ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 25
Bruckner – Symphony No. 7
Apr 29
ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
ASIAN TOURNAMENT
Works by Debussy, Ravel and Bruckner
Soloists: Mao Fujita and Alexandre Kantorow
May 15 ( Nanjing), 16 (Shanghai), 18 (Beijing), 22 (Taipei), 24 (Kaohsiung), 27/28 (Tokyo), 29 (Nagoya), 30 (Osaka), 31 (Yokohama)
NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wagner – The Mastersingers of Nuremberg Overture
Mozart – Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 453
Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra
June 13/14
ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
Jolas – B-Day (French Premiere)
Mozart – Symphony No. 40
Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
June 18/19/20
Biography
Jaap van Zweden is a master builder who ‘hears a vision’ for an orchestra and then works to achieve it. His artistic mastery has served him and the orchestras he has guided in good stead. Included among these would be his recent past music directorships: the New York Philharmonic where he championed and then, in 2022, inaugurated the transformation of New York’s David Geffen Hall; Hong Kong Philharmonic which he led to international prominence; and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra which earned national acclaim under his direction. His current positions include being Music Director of the Seoul Philharmonic which began in 2024, and since 2025 being Taiwan’s Evergreen Symphony Orchestra Artist-in-Residence. In the fall of 2026, he adds Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
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Widely recognized on three continents, Jaap van Zweden appears as guest with, in Europe, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Orchestre de Paris, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, and London Symphony Orchestra, and, in the United States, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Among Jaap van Zweden’s over 50 recordings is the Hong Kong Philharmonic in first-ever performances in Hong Kong of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, released on the Naxos label. To this is added the New York Philharmonic recordings of the World Premiere of David Lang’s prisoner of the state (2020), and Julia Wolfe’s Grammy-nominated Fire in my mouth (2019), both released on the Decca Gold label. Plus, his acclaimed performances of Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal — the last of which earned him the prestigious Edison Award for Best Opera Recording in 2012 — are available on CD and DVD.
Born in Amsterdam, Jaap van Zweden, at age 19 while still a student at Juilliard, was appointed the youngest-ever concertmaster of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and began his conducting career in 1996. In April 2023, van Zweden received the Concertgebouw Prize, for exceptional contributions to that organization’s artistic profile. He remains Conductor Emeritus of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Honorary Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, where he was Chief Conductor (2005–2013); he also served as Chief Conductor of the Royal Flanders Orchestra (2008–2011), and as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (2008–2018) and New York Philharmonic (2018-2024). Under his leadership, the Hong Kong Philharmonic (2012-2024) was named Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year in 2019. Van Zweden was named Musical America’s 2012 Conductor of the Year and was the subject of a CBS 60 Minutes profile in 2018.
In 1997, Jaap van Zweden and his wife, Aaltje, established the Papageno Foundation to support families of children with autism. Today, over twenty-five years later, the Foundation has grown into a multifaceted organization that focuses on the development of children and young adults with autism. In addition to in-home music therapy through a national network of qualified music therapists in the Netherlands, the Foundation has opened several Papageno Houses for young adults with autism to live, work, and participate in the community.
2025/26
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