With his immense charisma and inspired programming drawing on a symphonic repertoire that extends from Schubert and Bruckner to Mahler and Shostakovich, and to the very edge of creation in the world of contemporary music, conductor Jonathan Nott shares his musical and human experience at the highest level.Watching and listening to him, we are witness to an exceptional talent who invites his musicians and audiences to accompany him on a journey where seemingly opposite worlds are transformed into deep emotions and rigorous intellectual reflection.
Jonathan Nott began his career at the opera houses in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden where he conducted all major works of the repertoire including Wagner’s complete Ring cycle.
Well known for the power, vigor and clarity of his interpretations of Mahler, Jonathan Nott was invited in 2012 to conduct the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Debussy, Schoenberg and Ravel, resulting in his appointment as Music Director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in 2014 season. Together with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Nott led ‘Elektra’ in concert style to the best concert in the ‘Concert Top Ten’ by Ongaku no Tomo Magazine and ‘Salome’ to the ‘Best 10 Performances’ by Mainichi Classic Navi as well as the Music Pen Club Music Prize in 2020.
He has simultaneously held the post of Music and Artistic Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande since 2017. He also brings inspiration to young artists through his loyal and long term commitment to the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and to the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
Jonathan Nott has conducted most of the renowned contemporary orchestras and formations, working alongside Györgi Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann and Karlheinz Stockhausen, as well as composers of his own generation.
What’s more, his knowledge and understanding of the operatic repertoire make his performances in this sector, marked by their unerring, deeply moving and spiritual musical style, poignantly memorable.
He has an extensive and eclectic catalog of highly acclaimed recordings including works by Mahler, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra on Octavia Records, the complete orchestral works of Ligeti with the Berlin Phil., the complete symphonic works of Schubert and Mahler with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and Mahler’s Song of the Earth with the Vienna Phil. and Jonas Kaufmann.
