Photo: Marco Borggreve
British conductor Robin Ticciati, Music Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO), has been appointed honorary professor of conducting in the vocal department at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, starting with the 2020/21 winter semester. The School will present him with the certificate of this honorary professorship during the premiere of William Walton’s one-act opera ‘The Bear’ on 3 March 2021, a joint project with the DSO.
Ticciati is to make a significant contribution to the training of vocalists through his activities at the Hanns Eisler School.
Robin Ticciati has been Music Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin since the beginning of the 2017/18 season. During the summer of 2020, he extended his contract for another five years, through 2027. Since 2014 he has been Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera; from 2009 to 2018 he was chief conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
