London Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner is Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he will relinquish at the end of the 2023/24 season. From August 2024 Edward will undertake the Music Directorship of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet (DNO&B), having been their Artistic Advisor since February 2022.

During the 2023/24 season, Edward will conduct the London Philharmonic in 10 concerts at the Royal Festival Hall and tour the orchestra in Asia and to major European cities including Paris, Munich, Frankfurt and Hamburg, as well as a mini-residency in Bruges. He will open the LPO season with Mahler Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’.  Other highlights in London feature his curation of ‘The Music in You’, a cross-arts spring festival which celebrates artistic expression of all kinds. This opens with HaydnThe Creation and closes with a dance influenced programme featuring a reinvention of Szymanowski’s ballet Harnasie in collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor.

Edward will open the Bergen Philharmonic season with Mahler Symphony No. 1 and season highlights include a mini-Rachmaninov festival and their final German tour together. He completes his tenure as Chief Conductor at the closing of the Bergen International Festival, conducting Mahler Symphony No. 8 ‘Symphony of a Thousand’. The orchestra will be joined by several choirs, including the Edvard Grieg Kor of which Edward is the Principal Conductor.

After commencing his role of Artistic Advisor of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in February 2022, last season saw Edward conduct a new production of Verdi Un ballo in Maschera alongside concert performances of Berlioz Damnation of Faust. This season Edward will conduct a triple bill of Schumann’s song cycle Frauenliebe und–leben, Bartok Bluebeard’s Castle, and Zemlinsky A Florentine Tragedy.  Future plans with the company include a Ring Cycle commencing in Spring 2026 and culminating in Autumn 2028.

In demand as a guest conductor, recent seasons saw Edward debut with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and Wiener Symphoniker; while returns included engagements with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Montreal Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. He also continued his longstanding collaborations with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2010-16, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whom he has conducted at both the First and Last Night of the BBC Proms.

Music Director of English National Opera for eight years (2007-15), Edward built a strong relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera where he has conducted productions of Damnation of Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier and Werther.  In London he will return to the Royal Opera House where he made his debut in 2019 in a new production of Káťa Kabanová followed by Werther a season later.  During the 2021/22 season, Edward made his debut with Bayerische Staatsoper in a new production of Peter Grimes and returned in the 2022/23 season for a jump-in of Verdi Otello.  Elsewhere, he has conducted at La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris and this season he will conduct a double bill of Bartok Bluebeard’s Castle and Poulenc La Voix Humaine at Teatro di San Carlo.

A passionate supporter of young talent, Edward founded the Hallé Youth Orchestra in 2002 and regularly conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He has a close relationship with the Juilliard School of Music, and with the Royal Academy of Music who appointed him their inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Chair in 2014.

Born in Gloucester in 1974, Edward was educated at Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. He went on to become Assistant Conductor of The Hallé and Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. His many accolades include being named Royal Philharmonic Society Award Conductor of the Year (2008), an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2009) and receiving an OBE for Services to Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).

“For me, personally, music has been a way to inspire others” – Randall Goosby’s own words sum up perfectly his commitment to being an artist who makes a difference.  

Signed exclusively to Decca Classics in 2020 at the age of 24, American violinist Randall Goosby is acclaimed for the sensitivity and intensity of his musicianship alongside his determination to make music more inclusive and accessible, as well as bringing the music of under-represented composers to light. 

 Highlights of Randall Goosby’s 2023/24 season include debut performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons, National Symphony/Thomas Wilkins, Pittsburgh Symphony/Manfred Honeck, Seattle Symphony and St Louis Symphony both under Christian Reif, with European debuts including a European tour with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Danish National Radio Symphony/Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Oslo Philharmonic/Ryan Wigglesworth and Lahti Symphony/Roderick Cox. 

During 2023/24 Goosby will be Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre which will include a return to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 under the direction of Gemma New and feature both recital and chamber concerts. Other upcoming recital appearances include Chamber Music Cincinnati, Emory University in Georgia, Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall in Hamburg, Perth Concert Hall in Scotland and La Società dei Concerti in Milan.   

Randall Goosby was First Prize Winner in the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In 2019, he was named the inaugural Robey Artist by Young Classical Artists Trust in partnership with Music Masters in London; and in 2020 he became an Ambassador for Music Masters, a role that sees him mentoring and inspiring students in schools around the United Kingdom.  

A former student of Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho, he received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Artist Diploma degrees from the Juilliard School. He is an alumni of the Perlman Music Program and studied previously with Philippe Quint. He plays the Antonio Stradivarius, Cremona, “ex-Strauss,” 1708 on generous loan from Samsung Foundation of Culture.