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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Press

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

Upcoming Concerts

december 2023

06dec8:00 pmBamberg, Germany - Bamberg Symphony - Cherubini, Beethoven, Stravinsky8:00 pm Konzerthalle Bamberg Joseph-Keilberth-Saal

07dec8:00 pmMunich, Germany - Bamberg Symphony - Cherubini, Beethoven, Stravinsky8:00 pm Isarphilharmonie

09dec8:00 pmStuttgart, Germany - Bamberg Symphony - Cherubini, Beethoven, Stravinsky8:00 pm Liederhalle

16dec8:00 pmBamberg, Germany - Bamberg Symphony - Beethoven, Francesconi8:00 pm Konzerthalle Bamberg Joseph-Keilberth-Saal

17dec8:00 pmFrankfurt, Germany - Bamberg Symphony - Beethoven, Francesconi8:00 pm Alte Oper Frankfurt

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Featured Recording

Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Anna Lucia Richter, mezzo-soprano

Bamberger Symphoniker; Jakub Hrůša, conductor

Accentus Music / 2021

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