Daniel Harding
conductor
Daniel Harding is the music and artistic director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Previously, he was music director of the Orchestre de Paris (2016–19) and principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (2007–17). He is honored with the lifetime title of conductor laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has worked for over 20 years. Harding recently took up the position of music director of the Youth Music Culture The Greater Bay Area (YMCG) and also began his tenure as music director of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Harding is a regular visitor to the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Wiener Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among others. He is also closely associated with the Aix-en-Provence Festival, where he has conducted new productions of Don Giovanni, The Turn of the Screw, La traviata, and Eugene Onegin.
Harding’s sizeable discography includes Britten’s Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra (winner of a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording), works by Lutosławski with Solveig Kringelborn and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann and the Berliner Philharmoniker. A regular collaborator with Harmonia Mundi, his latest recordings with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra include The Wagner Project with Matthias Goerne, Mahler’s Fifth and Ninth symphonies, and Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem.
In 2002, Harding was awarded the title Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and in 2017, was nominated to the position of Officier Arts et Lettres. He was elected a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2012 and was awarded a CBE in the 2021 New Year Honours. Additionally, Harding is a qualified airline pilot.