Robin Ticciati to become Glyndebourne Festival music director
By Sophiamraia | Friday, July 01, 2011, 09:10
British conductor Robin Ticciati is to become Glyndebourne Festival music director from January 2014. His appointment will mark the 80th anniversary of the Festival and the 10th anniversary of Ticciati's professional operatic debut, made at Glyndebourne in 2004.
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Glyndebourne, the acclaimed opera house near Lewes
The 28-year-old will take over from Vladimir Jurowski, who in 2001, aged 29, became the festival's youngest musical director.
Ticciati will be the the seventh director in the festival's 77-year history.
His first professional operatic engagement, as Assistant Conductor for performances of Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne on Tour (GOT) in 2004, immediately led to further invitations to conduct for both Glyndebourne on Tour and the Glyndebourne Festival.
He said Glyndebourne offered "unrivalled opportunities".
"Creating opera with such talented artistic teams and world class musicians in an organisation that places great emphasis on detailed musical preparation is a genuine privilege," he added.
Ticciati, who will be 31 when he takes over, is principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and balances orchestral and operatic performances.
This year he will be conducting The Marriage of Figaro at the Salzburg Festival and Don Giovanni in Glyndebourne.
Ticciati will return to Glyndebourne in 2012 to conduct Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in a new production for the Festival directed by Michael Grandage.
Glyndebourne general director David Pickard said Ticciati would continue Glyndebourne's "long tradition of artistic excellence and innovation".
"None of us will forget the excitement when, as a 21-year-old assistant conductor on Die Zauberflote in 2004, Robin Ticciati stood in the pit at Glyndebourne for the first time and conducted the overture."
Those present at that rehearsal "were in no doubt of his exceptional talent", Mr Pickard added.
This year's festival, which runs from 21 May to 26 August, includes new productions of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg and Handel's Rinaldo.
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