Philippe Jordan
Kurier (June 29, 2025)
BR Klassik (September 8, 2025)Upcoming
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Haydn – The Creation
Nov 5/6/7
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
R. Strauss - Death and Transfiguration
R. Strauss - Oboe Concerto
R. Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
Nov 21/22
HR Symphony Orchestra
Mahler – Symphony No. 2
Dec 10/11
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
Saint-Saëns – Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila
Ravel – Piano Concerto in G major
Ravel – La valse
Debussy / Stokowski – Clair de lune
Ravel – Boléro
Sep 10BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Haydn – The Creation
Nov 5/6/7CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
R. Strauss - Death and Transfiguration
R. Strauss - Oboe Concerto
R. Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
Nov 21/22HR Symphony Orchestra
Mahler – Symphony No. 2
Dec 10/11ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON
Walton – Violin Concerto
Bruckner – Symphony No. 5
Dec 17/19OPERNHAUS ZÜRICH
New Year's Concert
Works by Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár, Richard Heuberger,
Jacques Offenbach, Émile Waldteufel, Oscar Straus and others
Jan 1/2ORCHESTRE DE CHAMBRE DE LAUSANNE
Strauss – Metamorphoses, TrV 290
Schubert – Symphony No. 8 in C major, D. 944
Jan 6 (Lausanne), Jan 7 (Martigny)SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wagner – Rienzi Overture
Strauss – Three Hymns by Friedrich Hölderlin
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Jan 15/16ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Wagner – Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Strauss – Horn Concerto No. 2
Beethoven – Symphony No. 7
Jan 22/24MOZARTWOCHE SALZBURG
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
Mozart – Symphony in G minor, KV 183
Mozart – Piano Concerto in C minor, KV 491
Mozart – Posthorn Serenade, KV 320
Jan 30LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
Brahms – Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20
Brahms – Symphony No. 1
March 18/19/20, March 21 (Palm Desert)CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wagner – Overture to Rienzi
Korngold – Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4
Apr 1 (Champagne), Apr 2/3BERLIN STATE OPERA
Verdi – La forza del destino
May 22/28/30, June 2/6ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE
Beethoven – La consécration de la maison, Overture
Beethoven – Missa solemnis
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
June 10VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mahler – Symphony No. 7 in E minor (“Song of the Night”)
June 15/16CHAMBER CONCERT
Hensel – String Quartet in E-flat major
Beethoven – String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 “Serioso”
Tchaikovsky – Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50
June 17 (Wiener Neustadt), 19 (Vienna)VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / MUSIC SOCIETY
Strauss – Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24, TrV 158
Strauss – Three Hymns by Friedrich Hölderlin, Op. 71, TrV 240
Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
June 23/24ORQUESTRA DE VALÈNCIA
Symphony No. 2, in C minor, “Resurrection”
July 1/2WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Beethoven - Egmont Overture
Grieg – Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
Brahms – Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
July 9 (Philharmonie Essen), July 10 Regentenbau (Kissinger Sommer)
Biography
Hailing from an artistic Swiss family, Philippe Jordan is today considered one of the most distinguished and established conductors of his generation. His international career has taken him to the leading opera houses, festivals, and concert halls around the world. He is currently Music Director Designate of the Orchestre National de France, where his tenure as Music Director begins in the 2027/28 season.
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In the 2026/27 season, Jordan conducts a new production of La forza del destino at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and concerts at Opernhaus Zürich. Further engagements take him to the Orchestre National de France, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre national de Lyon, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana at the Palau de les Arts, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and Vienna Philharmonic at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg.
During the 2025/26 season he conducted Der Rosenkavalier on the Vienna State Opera's tour of Japan. Additional engagements took him to the Opéra de Paris, La Scala in Milan, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestre National de France, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. In summer 2026, he led the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra on a European tour.
Jordan served as Music Director of the Vienna State Opera from September 2020 until June 2025, during which time he led numerous outstanding new productions, including Madama Butterfly, Parsifal, Macbeth, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tristan und Isolde, Salome, and Il Trittico. He placed special artistic emphasis on an entirely new Da Ponte cycle by Mozart. In his final season, 2024/25, he conducted new productions of Don Carlo and Tannhäuser, as well as revivals of the Mozart cycle and Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen.
Jordan's artistic career began as Kapellmeister at the Theater Ulm and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. From 2001 to 2004, he was chief conductor of the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra. During this time, he also made his debuts at numerous leading opera houses and festivals, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Scala, the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Vienna State Opera. Festspielhaus Baden-Baden He has conducted at the Aix-en-Provence and Glyndebourne Festivals, as well as at the Salzburg Festival, where he conducted Macbeth in the summer of 2025. Between 2006 and 2010, he was Principal Guest Conductor at the Berlin State Opera. He made his Bayreuth Festival debut in 2012 with Parsifal ; in 2017, he returned with a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , which he also conducted in subsequent years.
From 2009 to 2021, Philippe Jordan was Music Director of the Opéra national de Paris, where he conducted numerous major productions, including Moses und Aron, La Damnation de Faust, Der Rosenkavalier, Samson et Dalila, Lohengrin, Don Carlos in its original French version, Les Troyens, Don Giovanni, a new staging of Borodin’s Prince Igor, and Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen in a concert version.
From 2014 to 2020, he also served as Chief Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of his tenure included complete cycles of the symphonies of Schubert and Beethoven, all of Beethoven’s piano concertos, an extensive series of masses and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach, and a contrasting dialogue between Bruckner’s final three symphonies and works by György Kurtág, György Ligeti, and Giacinto Scelsi.
As a concert conductor, Philippe Jordan has collaborated with the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, as well as virtually all major North American orchestras – including the symphony orchestras of Boston, Seattle, St. Louis, Dallas, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, Minnesota, Montreal, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
2026/2027
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