Alan Gilbert

Describing Alan Gilbert’s eight-season tenure as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, the New Yorker observed, “Alan Gilbert has made an indelible mark on the orchestra’s history and that of the city itself.” He is Conductor Laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and a regular presence on the world’s most important stages, leading orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Concertgebouw, Philadelphia, Boston Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, La Scala, Staatskapelle Dresden, London Symphony, The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (formerly known as NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg), and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Gilbert has led productions for the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Zurich Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, and Santa Fe Opera. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies and holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies at the Juilliard School. The DVD of his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2008 conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic received a Grammy Award, and he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction of the New York Philharmonic’s production of Sweeney Todd. Gilbert was elected to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2014, honored in 2015 with the Foreign Policy Association Medal and the title of officer de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.