Lorenzo Viotti Named Next Music Director Of The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Tokyo Symphony Orchestra announced today that conductor Lorenzo Viotti will become the Orchestra’s next Music Director, beginning in the 2026/27 season. The initial agreement is for three years.

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1990, Viotti, now 34, is Chief Conductor of the Dutch National Opera and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. He already regularly conducts many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and in June 2024 he led a tour of Germany, Switzerland and Spain with the Vienna Philharmonic. In opera, in addition to the Dutch National Opera, he conducted Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra (new production) directed by Daniele Abbado at La Scala in February 2024 and Kalman’s Die Csardasfurstin at the Zurich Opera in April 2024. He is currently sought after by many of most prestigious orchestras and opera houses.

Mr. Viotti’s debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra was at the Tokyo Opera City Series in July 2014. This was not only his Japanese debut, but also his professional orchestral debut. He showed a wide variety of musicality and has since collaborated with the orchestra a total of five times, in 2016, 2019 (twice) and 2023. In 2024, ten years after their first collaboration, he will be welcomed as the orchestra’s music director.

We hope you’ll be looking forward to Mr. Viotti and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra as it continues to evolve.