Jakub Hrůša

Born in the Czech Republic, Jakub Hrůša is chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, music director of The Royal Opera, and chief conductor and music director designate of the Czech Philharmonic (from 2028).

Hrůša performs regularly with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, NHK Symphony, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra – and in the US with The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Hrůša has led opera productions for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Opéra National de Paris, and Zurich Opera. He has also been a regular guest with the Glyndebourne Festival, conducting Vanessa, The Cunning Little Vixen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carmen, The Turn of the Screw, Don Giovanni, and La bohème, and was music director of Glyndebourne on Tour for three years.

As a recording artist, Hrůša has received numerous awards and nominations. He was a double winner at the 2024 Gramophone Awards for his recordings of Britten’s Violin Concerto with Isabelle Faust and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival. With the Bamberg Symphony, he received the ICMA Prize for Symphonic Music in both 2022 and 2023 for his recordings of Rott’s First Symphony and Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony. In 2021, his disc of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Hrůša is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2025, he was awarded the Medal of Merit in the field of Arts by the President of the Czech Republic, and in 2024, he was awarded the Silver Medal of the President of the Czech Senate, its highest award. He was the inaugural recipient of the Sir Charles Mackerras Prize and has also been awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Bavarian Culture Prize, the Czech Academy of Classical Music’s Antonín Dvořák Prize, and — with the Bamberg Symphony — the Bavarian State Prize for Music.