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Jan Willem de Vriend

Bach and Mozart 2025-2026

Current position: Chief Conductor Wiener KammerOrchester, Principal Guest Conductor Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Partner Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Previous: Chief Conductor of Phion (2006–2017) and the Residentie Orkest (2015–2019); Principal Guest Conductor of the Brabants Orkest (2008–2015) and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (2015–2021)
Education: violin studies at the Conservatories of Amsterdam and The Hague
Breakthrough: 1982, as founder and artistic director of the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Subsequently: guest conducting appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart and NDR Sinfonieorchester Hannover
Opera: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century operas with the Combattimento Consort; Festival of St. Moritz Basel (Don Giovanni and Rossini’s La Gazetta)
Debut Rotterdam Philharmonic: 2014

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