Mozart Matinee #66

One of the most dynamic conductors of his generation, Lorenzo Viotti is currently Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dutch National Opera, where he conducts two much-anticipated productions in the 2024/2025 season: The Amsterdam premiere of Barrie Kosky's celebrated Die Fledermaus and a new production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, directed by Barbara Horáková. He also continues his relationship with Oper Zürich with a new production of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov.

His symphonic season features his return to the United States for his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. In Europe, to deepen his relationships with leading symphony orchestras, he returns to the Filharmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Gürzenich Orchestra, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, where he was Chief Conductor from 2018-2021. Furthermore, he makes his debut with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and closes the season with concerts with the Vienna Symphony. Viotti concludes his tenure as Music Director of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra with six varied programs in the Concertgebouw and a tour within the Netherlands.

Highly esteemed as symphonic guest conductor, Lorenzo Viotti has worked with many of the world's leading orchestras, including e.g. Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, Saxon State Orchestra Dresden, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra.

Born into a French-Italian musical family in Lausanne, Lorenzo Viotti studied piano, singing, and percussion in Lyon and attended orchestral conducting courses with Professor Georg Mark in Vienna, where he also performed as percussionist with numerous renowned orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic. He completed his conducting studies with Nicolas Pasquet at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and has won several prestigious conducting competitions, most notably the Nestlé Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival in 2015, the 11th International Conducting Competition of the Cadaqués Orchestra, and the MDR Symphony Orchestra Conductors Competition, and in 2017 was honoured as “Newcomer of the Year” at the International Opera Awards in London.