Artist
© Peter SerlingBrad Lubman
Brad Lubman, American conductor and composer, has gained widespread recognition for his versatility, commanding technique and insightful interpretations over the course of more than two decades. He is much in demand with major orchestras in Europe and the US and has been successful in building regular partnerships with several well-known orchestras and ensembles, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra or the WDR Symphony Orchestra as well as Ensemble Modern, Ensemble intercontemporain and Steve Reich and Musicians.
After recently conducting major international orchestras such as the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, or the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Brad Lubman kicked off the 2023/24 season with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssee at the Auditorio Nacional Mexico City, a project in cooperation with the Southbank Center London. Further collaborations during the season include the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Radio Symphony Frankfurt, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the SWR Symphony Stuttgart.
Brad Lubman is founding Co-Artistic and Music Director of the NY-based Ensemble Signal. Their recording of Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians on harmonia mundi was awarded a Diapason d’or in June 2015 and appeared on the Billboard Classical Crossover charts. In Spring 2019, he led the ensemble in the premiere ofSteve Reich’s Reich/Richter at the opening of New York art space The Shed. He is also Professor of Conducting and Ensembles at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, as well as on the faculty at the Bang on a Can Summer Institute.
In 2017, Brad Lubman was Composer in Residence at the Grafenegg Festival; his compositions have been performed by acclaimed ensembles and artists such as the Tonkünstler Orchester Austria, musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Rudolf Buchbinder.
2023/24 season