Jakub Hrůša

Born in 1981 in Brno in the Czech Republic, Jakub Hrůša studied conducting with Jiří Bělohlávek and others at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He began his career in 2005 with the Prague Philharmonia, which he led as Chief Conductor from 2008 to 2015. He first attracted attention in the field of opera at Glyndebourne on Tour, where he was Music Director from 2010 to 2013. This was followed by invitations to the Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera, the Opéra national de Paris, Frankfurt Opera, and the Royal Opera House in London, where he will take up the post of Music Director in 2025. At the Salzburg Festival in 2022, he staged Janáček’s Katia Kabanová. Hrůša has been at the helm of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra since 2016. He is associated with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he performed at the inauguration of Czech President Petr Pavel in 2023, as Principal Guest Conductor. Jakub Hrůša has worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. He made his debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2018 and, in 2019, his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic. Hrůša’s recordings include a Brahms-Dvořák cycle with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, among others. He won the BBC Music Magazine Award twice in 2020 and the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) in 2022 and 2023. Jakub Hrůša is President of the International Martinů Circle and the Dvořák Society. He received the inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Prize in 2015 and the Dvořák Prize and Bavarian State Prize for Music in 2020. In 2023, Hrůša was made an honorary member of London’s Royal Academy of Music and was distinguished by Opus Klassik as Conductor of the Year.

Lucerne Festival debut on 27 August 2019 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a program of works by Mozart, Schumann, and Mendelssohn

April 2024