Ivor Bolton is one of the most distinguished conductors in the field of Baroque and Classical repertoire; his versatility, however, is borderless. He recorded a critically acclaimed complete Bruckner symphony cycle with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, with whom he was Chief Conductor for twelve years. Further, he conducted Britten’s opera Billy Budd, which received the ‘Best Production’ prize from Opernwelt, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. With the Sinfonieorchester Basel, whose Chief Conductor Bolton has been since 2016, he has recorded a series of works by Fauré. He has held the position of Music Director at the Teatro Real since 2015.

In addition to his leading positions Bolton is Conductor Laureate of the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, with whom he appears annually at the Salzburg Festival and on tour, and Chief Conductor of the Dresden Festival Orchestra. Since 1994 he has enjoyed a close relationship with the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he has conducted twenty-five new productions, including operas by Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart. Bolton was awarded the prestigious ‘Bayerische Theaterpreis’ for his outstanding work in Munich.

Having worked as Music Director of English Touring Opera and Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Ivor Bolton has since appeared at numerous prestigious opera houses, including the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House (London) and English National Opera, as well as the opera houses of Bologna, Brussels, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Sydney, Berlin, Hamburg and Genoa. In concert he has served as Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and has been a welcome guest at the BBC Proms and Lincoln Center (New York), as well as with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestre de Paris, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Wiener Symphoniker and Freiburger Barockorchester.

Highlights of past seasons include productions of Medée and Orlando at the Teatro Real, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Idomeneo at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and Mozart’s Requiem at Theater Basel. Recent concert engagements include those with Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Teatro La Fenice (Venice), a return to Mozartwoche and the Salzburg Festival, and a tour to Vienna and Salzburg with the Sinfonieorchester Basel.