11/09/2026
Lorenzo Viotti has extended his tenure as Music Director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra through the 2033/34 season, continuing a partnership first announced in 2024.
The extension follows a widely praised inaugural season that opened with Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, Mahler's Symphony No. 1, R. Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé. Viotti returns to Japan up to four times each season, alongside his roles as Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and incoming General Music Director of Zurich Opera House from 2028/29.
Long-term relationships between conductors and orchestras are built one season at a time, through trust that has to be earned in the room, not on paper. This is the work we invest in.
📸 © Jan Willem Kaldenbach