Nathalie Stutzmann appointed Artistic and Music Director of Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

The Lithuanian conductor will join Jaap van Zweden in the titled roles of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France from September 2026.

The American conductor will take on his first Music Director role at an American institution from the start of the 2027–28 season.

The sought-after current music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will adopt this new role in Berlin from the 2026–27 season.

GradPro was set up in 2021 to help new graduates leaving vocational schools without jobs to find placements.

Harding will join the LA Phil’s reimagined leadership team, including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Anna Handler and Gustavo Dudamel.

The appointment marks the first formal conducting title of Adèsʼ career, during which he has enjoyed a close relationship with the orchestra as Composer-in-Association.