ORCHESTRA / Conductors / Jan Latham-Koenig, guest conductor (UK)
Jan Latham-Koenig studied at the Royal College of Music in London and started his career as a pianist. But in 1982, he decided to devote himself wholly to conducting. He performed with all the leading European orchestras. From 1989 to 1992, he was music director of the Orchestra of Porto, which he founded at the request of the Portuguese government.
In 1988, he made a sensational debut as an opera conductor with Macbeth at the Vienna State Opera and became its permanent guest conductor from 1991, giving about one hundred performances. He now regularly conducts in the world’s leading opera houses, including Covent Garden, the Opèra National Paris-Bastille and the operas of Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, Lisbon and Santiago in Chile.
Jan Latham-Koenig was Music Director of both the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Opéra National du Rhin from 1997 to 2002. In 2005, he was appointed Music Director at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. He is the first British conductor to hold such a post at one of the major Italian theatres, though he previously held the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in the 1990’s.
Jan Latham-Koenig is greatly in demand as a guest conductor. He has appeared with orchestras world-wide and performs regularly in Italy, including with the orchestras of the Teatro Comunale in Florence, RAI Turin and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Jan Latham-Koenig is Music Director of the Teatro Municipal of Santiago in Chile, of the Wrocław Symphony Orchestra in Poland, of the "Wratislavia Cantans" International Festival, Artistic Director of the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano and of the Young Janacek Philharmonic, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Filarmonica del Teatro Regio in Turin.
In the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow Jan Latham-Koenig conducts Wagner’s Lohengrin. The Maestro has conducted this opera in the theatres all over the world, including Teatro Nacional di San Carlo with Eberhard Büchner in the title role.
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