Graeme Jenkins

"An excellent musician!" Musical America

The British conductor Graeme Jenkins has conducted over 150 operatic productions worldwide with companies ranging from Glyndebourne and ENO through to Australian Opera, Canadian Opera, Danish Opera, Cologne Opera, Netherlands Opera, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Wiener Staatsoper.

Having recently renewed his Music Directorship contract at Dallas Opera, he will take the company through to May 2011 and oversee their transition into their new home, the Winspear Opera House at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts in 2009. A regular at Wiener Staatsoper following a stunning debut with Billy Budd, he returns for Jenufa and Holländer in 2009 and 2010 and this season conducts a new production of Figaro at Theater an der Wien. His close association with Royal Danish Opera began with Clemenza in 2004 and continues in the next two seasons with Figaro and Don Carlos.

Jenkins has also worked with many symphony orchestras including most recently Minnesota, Dallas, Houston, Utah, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre Philarmonique de Monte Carlo, Danish National Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony. Gulbenkian, National Orchestra of Porto and Melbourne Symphony.