Daniel Harding
conductor
About this Artist
Daniel Harding is the Music and Artistic Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris from 2016 to 2019 and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2017. He is honored with the lifetime title of Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with which he has worked for over 20 years. In 2024 he takes up the position of Music Director of Youth Music Culture, The Greater Bay Area (YMCG), in Guangzhou, China, for a five-year term, as well as the position of Music Director of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
He is a regular visitor to the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. In the U.S., he has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony.
Harding’s recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Mahler Symphony No. 10 with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, received widespread critical acclaim. For Virgin/EMI he has recorded Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brahms’ Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra (winner of a Grammy Award for best opera recording), Don Giovanni and The Turn of the Screw with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, works by Lutosławski with soprano Solveig Kringelborn and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and works by Britten with tenor Ian Bostridge and the Britten Sinfonia.
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 des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2021, he was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours. He is a qualified airline pilot.