Jakub Hrůša, chief conductor of Bamberg Symphony, kicks off his first season as music director of the Royal Opera in London in 2025. In addition, he is principal guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, which recently named him chief conductor with effect from 2028, and of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
As a guest conductor he is in high demand with orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestre de Paris, het NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the orchestras of Cleveland, New York, Chicago en Boston and – since 2015 – the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Hrůša conducted operas at the Glyndebourne Festival and in the opera theatres of Vienna, London, Paris and Zurich.
He was highly praised for his recordings of Dvořák's Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich and the concertos of Martinů en Bartók with Frank Peter Zimmermann. For Bruckner's Fourth and Mahler's Fourth Symphony, both recorded with the Bamberger Symphoniker, he received an ICMA Prize and a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, respectively.
Born in the Czech city of Brno, Jakub Hrůša studied with Jiří Bělohlávek and others in Prague, and in 2015 was the first ever winner of the Sir Charles Mackerras Prize. In 2020 he obtained the Bavarian State Prize for Music and the Antonín Dvořák Prize. Hrůša is chairman of the International Martinů Circle and The Dvořák Society.