Coming from an artistic Swiss family, Philippe Jordan’s career has taken him to the world’s major opera houses, festivals and orchestras, and he is regarded as one of the most established and important conductors of our time. Since September 2020 he has been Music Director of the Vienna State Opera. His career on the podium began as Kapellmeister at Germany’s Stadttheater Ulm and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. In 2001-2004 he was Principal Conductor of Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra. During this period he also debuted at several of the world’s leading opera houses and festivals, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan, Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne and Salzburg. In 2006-2010 he returned to the Berlin State Opera as Principal Guest Conductor. In the summer of 2012 he debuted at the Bayreuth Festival, where he also conducted in subsequent years. Between 2009 and 2021 he was Music Director of the Opéra national de Paris. In 2014-20 he was also Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has performed complete cycles of Schubert’s symphonies and Beethoven’s symphonies and piano concerti, a cycle of J. S. Bach’s major masses and oratorios and programs of Bruckner’s last three symphonies alongside modern classics by Kurtág, Ligeti and Scelsi. As symphonic conductor, Philippe Jordan has appeared with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, Minnesota, Montreal, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and the Israel Philharmonic.