Daniel Harding (b. Oxford, 1975) has distinguished himself as one of the leading
conductors of his generation. A trumpeter with the National Youth Orchestra at
the age of 13, he became Simon Rattle's assistant at the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra in 1993, then Claudio Abbado's at the Berlin Philharmonic.
The youngest conductor at the London Proms (1996), he went on to lead the
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Bremen Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de
Paris after his appointment in 2015. His rep...