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Chief Conductor – George Enescu Philharmonic

British conductor Leo Hussain has established himself as a leading interpreter in a broad range of repertoire, receiving critical acclaim for his interpretations of Mozart, the second Viennese school and great 20th century masterpieces. Formerly Music Director of the Opéra de Rouen and Salzburg Landestheater, he now conducts for many of the world’s top orchestras and opera houses and is Chief Conductor of the George Enescu Philharmonic.

During the 2025/26 season, Hussain’s engagements include “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” and Handel’s “Saul” in his return to the Semperoper Dresden, “Mitridate”, “Re di Ponto” and Weinberg’s “The Passenger” for the Frankfurt Opera, “La traviata” with the New National Theatre Tokyo and “Carmen” with the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. He also conducts concert performances with the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier and Teatro Real Madrid.

Leo Hussain has been invited to leading international opera houses and festivals, including Oper Frankfurt, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Hamburg, the Santa Fe and the San Francisco Opera, Volksoper Wien, the Royal Opera House Convent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival as well as the Royal Swedish, Gothenburg and Norwegian National operas.

Hussain has conducted concerts with the Hamburg and Vienna symphony orchestras, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra at Mozartfest Würzburg, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Prague Philharmonia, the Gulbenkian and Royal Danish orchestras, the West Australian and Tasmanian symphony orchestras, Auckland Philharmonia, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra at the Tokyo Spring Festival. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2024 conducting the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.

Early success at the Salzburg Festival, where he assisted Simon Rattle conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker and Valery Gergiev conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, led to worldwide symphonic debuts and close working relationships with those conductors, along with Daniel Barenboim and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Leo Hussain studied at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music.

SEASON 2025/26