Embodying music with unparalleled dramatic sensitivity, soprano and Conductor conductor Barbara Hannigan is an artist at the forefront of creation. The Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician has demonstrated a deep commitment to the music of our time and has premiered more than ninety new creations. With a 30-year career, Hannigan's artistic colleagues have included Reinbert de Leeuw, Pierre Boulez, Sasha Waltz, John Zorn, Krszysztof Warlikowski, Simon Rattle, Katie Mitchell, Henri Dutilleux, Vladimir Jurowski, Gyorgy Ligeti, Kirill Petrenko, George Benjamin, Andreas Kriegenburg, and Hans Abrahamsen. He is Conductor Principal Guest Artist of the Göteborgs Symfoniker, Première Artiste Invitée of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Associate Artist of the London Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Principal Guest Artist of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (from 2024/25 onwards) and Reinbert de Leeuw Professor of Music at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has released six albums with Alpha Classics, including his latest disc, Infinite Voyage, in 2023. Hannigan's commitment to the younger generation of musicians led her to create the mentoring initiatives Equilibrium Young Artists (2017) and Momentum: our Future Now (2020). Hannigan resides in Finistère, on the northwest coast of France, just across the Atlantic, where she grew up in Waverley, Nova Scotia. Barbara Hannigan is Chief Conductor designate of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (from August 2026).

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