Jonathan Bloxham Music Director Luzerner Theater; Chief Conductor Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie; Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor London Mozart Players
Conductor
“A musical miracle... energetic, beautiful, clear and, when necessary, explosive…increasingly full-bodied and expansive, yet always precisely crafted – Bloxham has achieved a masterpiece!” “The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Bloxham plays a lively, crisp-fresh Mozart...And with all this splendor and Bloxham’s ideally balanced tempos, the individual registers always remain clearly audible. Mozart’s score is implemented exemplary in every detail. You couldn’t play Mozart’s opera more thrillingly or with more virtuosity.”
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Biography
British conductor Jonathan Bloxham was appointed Music Director of the Luzerner Theater in 2023, where he consistently achieves excellent artistic results across a wide range of repertoire. In the 2025/26 season, Bloxham conducts new productions of Peter Grimes, L’elisir d’amore, and Die Zauberflöte. He made his debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2021 conducting Luisa Miller with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and in the same year led Glyndebourne Touring Opera in Don Pasquale, having previously conducted Rigoletto in 2019.
This season marks his second year as Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, following Andris Nelsons and Jonothan Heyward. Last season he led the orchestra on two national tours and in their subscription series in Herford, with two further tours planned this year. In 2021 he recorded a CD of Strauss and Franck with the orchestra, described as “irresistible” by Musicweb International.
The 2025/26 season also marks his first as Principal Conductor of the London Mozart Players, building on a long-standing relationship that includes roles as Resident Conductor and Artistic Advisor since 2022. Highlights include Mozart, Master of Drama, the opening concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields with Danielle De Niese, and a celebratory performance at Fairfield Halls marking the 150th anniversary of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. He also leads world premieres by Anna Clyne, Stephen McNeff, Tunde Jegede and Ryan Morgan.
Recent guest engagements include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Tonkünstler Orchestra at the Grafenegg Festival, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, as well as Philharmonic Brass (musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic), often on multiple occasions. This season he conducts the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Bremer Philharmoniker, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in two programmes.
In 2024 Bloxham released a recording of Bach’s Keyboard Concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Tianqi Du, which reached number one on the Apple Classical Top 100 global chart. He has also recorded works by Bruce Broughton with the London Symphony Orchestra (2024), as well as discs for future release with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (2022) and the London Mozart Players (2023).
Bloxham’s conducting career began in 2016 as Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. Before turning to conducting, he enjoyed a successful career as a cellist, performing across Europe and making his concerto debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2012. He studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Royal College of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and later trained in conducting with Sian Edwards, Michael Seal, Nicolas Pasquet and Paavo Järvi. For the past 16 years, he has been Artistic Director of the Northern Chords Festival in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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