Fabio Luisi is Conductor emeritus of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Conductor music of the Zurich Opera House, Conductor music of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Conductor principal of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. He will also take up the position of Principal Conductor of the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo from the 2022/2023 season. among, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Filarmonica della Scala and the Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He was Conductor principal of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, from which he received the Gold Medal and the Golden Ring dedicated to Bruckner.

His past engagements include the musical direction of the Staatskapelle Dresden, as well as being the principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Conductor artistic director of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in Leipzig, Conductor musical director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Conductor principal of the Tonkunstler-Orchester in Vienna and Conductor artistic director of the Graz Symphony Orchestra.

Luisi received a Grammy Award for his conducting of the last two operas of theRing of the Nibelung at the Grammys for Best Opera Recording in 2012.

His extensive discography includes works by Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Salieri, and Vincenzo Bellini, symphonies by Arthur Honegger, Ottorino Respighi, and Franz Liszt, music by Franz Schmidt and Richard Strauss, and his award-winning interpretation of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. In 2015 the Philharmonia Zurich started its own record label Philharmonia Records with inle of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony.