Born in Oxford, Daniel Harding began his career assisting Sir Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with which he made his professional debut in 1994. He went on to assist Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic and made his debut with the orchestra at the 1996 Berlin Festival.
He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
He is a regular visitor to the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouworkest, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, and has conducted many of Europe's most prominent orchestras. In North America he has led the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chicago and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, among others.
His opera engagements include Idomeneo and Salome at La Scala, Milan; The Turn of the Screw and Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival. He also appears frequently at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
In 2002 he was awarded the title Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
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Born in Oxford, Daniel Harding began his career assisting Sir Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with which he made his professional debut in 1994. He went on to assist Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic and made his debut with the orchestra at the 1996 Berlin Festival.
He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. His previous positions include Principal Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony in Norway (1997-2000), Principal Guest Conductor of Sweden's Norrköping Symphony (1997-2003) and Music Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (1997-2003).
He is a regular visitor to the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Vienna Philharmonic (both of which he has conducted at the Salzburg Festival), the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouworkest, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. Other guest conducting engagements have included the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Oslo Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestras and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. In the U.S. and in Canada he has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestras of Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, Houston and Toronto.
In the 2005 he opened the season at La Scala, Milan, conducting a new production of Idomeno, and returned in 2007 for Salome. His operatic experience also includes The Turn of the Screw and Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic. Closely associated with the Aix-en-Provence Festival he has conducted new productions there of Così fan tutte directed by Patrice Chereau, Don Giovanni directed by Peter Brook, The Turn of the Screw directed by Luc Bondy, La Traviata directed by Peter Mussbach, Eugene Onegin directed by Irina Brook and, most recently, Le nozze di Figaro directed by Vincent Boussard. Other engagements have included Die Zauberflöte in Vienna, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and Jenufa for Welsh National Opera.
Daniel Harding records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon. Previously a Virgin/EMI artist, his recordings for that label include Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Beethoven Overtures and Brahms' Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; Mozart's Don Giovanni and Britten's The Turn of the Screw (awarded the "Choc de l'Année 2002", the "Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros" and a Gramophone award), both with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; works by Lutoslawski with Solveig Kringelborn and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and works by Britten with Ian Bostridge and the Britten Sinfonia.
In 2002 he was awarded the title Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
