Robin Ticciati has been Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for nine years, since the 2009/10 season. He became Music Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 2017 and has been the Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera since 2014.

Guest-conducting projects include engagements with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Staatskapelle Dresden, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Wiener Symphoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Czech Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Opera projects include productions of Der Rosenkavalier and La finta gardiniera at Glyndebourne, Peter Grimes at La Scala, Le nozze di Figaro at Salzburg Festival, Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, and Hänsel und Gretel at the Metropolitan Opera. The 2016/17 season saw Ticciati conduct a new production of La clemenza di Tito at Glyndebourne Festival alongside a production of Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera.

Ticciati has recorded many critically acclaimed albums for Linn including Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été and La mort de Cléopâtre, Haydn’s Symphonies Nos 31, 70 and 101, and Schumann’s Symphonies with Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ and Roméo et Juliette with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Debussy’s La mer & Ariettes oubliées with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Other releases include Dvořák’s Symphony No 9, Bruckner’s Mass No 3, as well as several opera works on Opus Arte and on Glyndebourne’s own label.

Born in London, Ticciati is a violinist, pianist and percussionist by training. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain when he turned to conducting, aged fifteen, under the guidance of Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle. He has been appointed ‘Sir Colin Davis Fellow of Conducting’ by the Royal Academy of Music.