About this Artist

Daniel Harding joins the LA Phil as its Music Director starting in the 27/28 season, spearheading the LA Phil’s evolving artistic leadership team. Acclaimed for his artistic leadership and craftsmanship, Harding’s repertoire is wide-ranging, from award winning recordings of baroque music to countless premieres of new works.

Daniel Harding was born in Oxford in 1975. As a teenager, he persuaded his school friends to play for him — not Mozart or Haydn, but fiercely complex twentieth-century music. Simon Rattle invited him to become his assistant in Birmingham. Claudio Abbado brought him to Berlin shortly after.
He came to international attention in 1998 when he conducted Don Giovanni at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in a production by legendary director, Peter Brook. He was twenty-two.

His subsequent career has been built on long relationships: Nineteen years with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, decades with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, which he helped found, ten years as Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, more than thirty years of appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, and more than twenty with the Vienna Philharmonic. He served as Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris before taking up his current position leading the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, one of the world’s oldest musical institutions. Beginning with the 2027/28 season he becomes Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

He is a Grammy winner and a pilot for a major European airline.