Jakub Hrůša

Hrůša is Chief Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, Music Director Designate of The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He is the 2023 Opus Klassik Conductor of the Year.

He performs with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, NHK Symphony, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

He has led productions for the Lyric Opera of Chicago (Jenůfa), Salzburg Festival (Kát’a Kabanová), Vienna State Opera and Zurich Opera (The Makropulos Case), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Carmen and Lohengrin) and Opéra National de Paris (Rusalka). With Glyndebourne Festival, he conducted Vanessa, The Cunning Little Vixen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carmen, The Turn of the Screw, Don Giovanni and La bohème, and was Music Director of Glyndebourne On Tour for three years.

Awards for his discography include ICMA Prizes for Symphonic Music and Opera Video, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, and BBC Music Magazine Awards; and nominations for Gramophone and Grammy ® awards.

Hrůša studied conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where his teachers included Jiří Bělohlávek. He is President of the International Martinů Circle and The Dvořák Society, and an Honorary Member of London’s Royal Academy of Music. In 2023, he was awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize. He was the inaugural recipient of the Sir Charles Mackerras Prize, and in 2020 was awarded both the Antonín Dvořák Prize by the Czech Republic’s Academy of Classical Music, and the Bavarian State Prize for Music.