Chief Conductor – Bamberg Symphony
Music Director Designate – Royal Opera, Covent Garden (Music Director from 2025)
Principal Guest Conductor – Czech Philharmonic
Principal Guest Conductor – Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Jakub Hrůša

Born in the Czech Republic, Jakub Hrůša is Music Director Designate of The Royal Opera, Covent Garden (Music Director from 2025/26), Chief Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.

He is a frequent guest with many of the world’s greatest orchestras. The 2019/20 season will see him return to the Berlin Philharmonic and make debuts with The Pittsburgh Symphony, Zurich Opera (a new production of the The Makropulos Case) and the Dutch National Opera (a new production for the Holland Festival of Rusalka with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra).

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Jakub Hrůša Wins Critical Acclaim Following His US Operatic Debut with Jenůfa in Chicago

Nov 23, 2023

Earlier this month, Jakub Hrůša made his US operatic debut conducting Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa in Chicago. The first performance took place on the 12 November at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, in a production by Claus Guth which was created in association with the Royal...

Jakub Hrůša Receives Three Nominations for the 2024 ICMA Awards

Nov 20, 2023

Congratulations to Jakub Hrůša, who has received three nominations for the 2024 ICMA Awards. The nominations are in the Concerto, Symphonic Music and Video: Opera categories, for the following recordings with the Bamberg Symphony and Vienna Philharmonic: Concerto...

Jakub Hrůša Steps in for Daniel Barenboim to Make Staatskapelle Berlin Debut in Chicago

Nov 17, 2023

Jakub Hrůša will make his Staatskapelle Berlin debut in Chicago on 28 November. The programme includes Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 in F Major Op. 90 and Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68. He is stepping in for Daniel Barenboim, who unfortunately had to withdraw from the...

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Jakub Hruša’s sensational conducting reinforces the vivacity and stylishness: the London Philharmonic sound brilliantly effervescent under his baton and a score too often taken for granted comes thrillingly alive. [On Glyndebourne’s ‘Carmen’]

– The Times

Jakub Hrůša led a fiery, passionate account of Bizet’s score, dripping with drama. [On Glyndebourne’s ‘Carmen’]

– Bachtrack