Jakub Hrůša, who was born in 1981 in Brno in the current Czech Republic, 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 initially gained attention in the opera world through Glyndebourne on Tour, where he held the post of music director from 2010 to 2013. This was followed by invitations to the Vienna Staatsoper and Zurich Opera, the Opéra national de Paris, Frankfurt Opera, and the Royal Opera House in London, where he will assume the post of Music Director in 2025. He also led the 2022 Salzburg Festival production of Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová. Hrůša has helmed the Bamberger Symphoniker since 2016. He serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Czech Philharmonic, with which he performed in March 2023 for the inauguration of the new Czech President Petr Pavel. Jakub Hrůša has partnered with 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 first appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2018, which was followed in 2019 by his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic. Hrůša’s recordings with the Bamberger Symphoniker include a four-part Brahms-Dvořák cycle. He won the BBC Music Magazine Award twice in 2020 and, in 2022, the ICMA Award for his recording of Bruckner’s Fourth. Jakub Hrůša is President of the International Martinů Circle and of 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. Hrůša was named an Honorary Member of the London Royal Academy of Music in 2023.
Lucerne Festival debut on 27 August 2019, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a program of works by Mozart, Schumann, and Mendelssohn.
July 2023