The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra has just announced the Swiss Lorenzo Viotti as its next music director.
Viotti, presently with Netherlands Opera, is known best for his narcissitic selfies on social media.
Press release:
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Chairman Tatsuya Okazaki and Managing Director and Executive Director Yoshitaka
Hirooka 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.
As the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra’s fourth music director, Mr Viotti will succeed Jonathan Nott, whose tenure began in 2014 and ended with the 2025/26 season. 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.
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