Martyn Brabbins

Martyn Brabbins is currently Chief Conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of India.

He regularly guest conducts top international orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, San Francisco and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony orchestras and DSO Berlin, as well as the Philharmonia, BBC Symphony and most of the other leading UK orchestras. He is a popular figure at the BBC Proms, which in 2019 commissioned 14 living composers to write a 60th-birthday tribute to him. He is known for his advocacy of British composers, conducting hundreds of world premieres across the globe. In 2023 he received the RPS Conductor Award for his ‘colossal’ contribution to UK musical life.

He has enjoyed a busy opera career since his early days at the Kirov and more recently at La Scala, the Bavarian State Opera and regularly in Lyon, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Antwerp. He opened English National Opera’s 2023/24 season with David Alden’s production of Peter Grimes in what turned out to be his swansong, as well as a musical highpoint of his seven-year tenure. He also led a rare performance of Tippett’s New Year with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recording it for release on NMC.

Among recent symphonic highlights are conducting the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony at Suntory Hall, Boulez with the BBC Symphony, his debut with the Danish National Symphony and returns to the Antwerp Symphony, BBC Scottish and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Last season he returned to the Adelaide and BBC Scottish Symphony orchestras, Lahti Sinfonia and the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie. Highlights in Malmö this season include the Korngold Violin Concerto with Bomsori Kim, Jörg Widmann’s trumpet concerto Towards Paradise, Labyrinth VI, with Håkan Hardenberger and the annual New Year’s Eve concert.

His award-winning discography of nearly 150 CDs ranges from Romantic to contemporary repertoire. He has received three Gramophone Awards, a Cannes Opera Award and the Grand Prix du Disque.

Martyn Brabbins studied composition in London and conducting with Ilya Musin in St Petersburg, subsequently winning first prize at the 1988 Leeds Conductors’ Competition which launched his international career.

Arweinydd

Martyn Brabbins yw Prif Arweinydd Cerddorfa Symffoni Malmö a Cherddorfa SymffoniIndia ar hyn o bryd.

Mae’n arwain y prif gerddorfeydd rhyngwladol yn rheolaidd fel y Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Cerddorfeydd Symffoni Metropolitan Tokyo a San Francisco a DSO Berlin, ynogystal â’r Philharmonia, Cerddorfa Symffoni’r BBC a’r rhan fwyaf o brif gerddorfeydderaill y Deyrnas Unedig. Mae’n ffigwr poblogaidd ym Mhroms y BBC, a gomisiynodd 14 o gyfansoddwyr i ysgrifennu teyrnged pen-blwydd yn 60 oed iddo yn 2019. Mae’n adnabyddusam ei gefnogaeth i gyfansoddwyr Prydeinig, ac mae wedi arwain cannoedd o premières ledled y byd. Yn 2023, enillodd Wobr Arweinydd RPS am ei gyfraniad ‘aruthrol’ at fywydcerddorol y Deyrnas Unedig.

Mae wedi cael gyrfa brysur ym myd yr opera, ers ei ddyddiau cynnar yn y Kirov ac yn fwydiweddar yn La Scala, Opera Talaith Bafaria ac yn rheolaidd yn Lyon, Amsterdam, Frankfurt ac Antwerp. Agorodd dymor 2023/24 Opera Cenedlaethol Lloegr gyda chynhyrchiad David Alden o Peter Grimes yn yr hyn a ddaeth i fod yn berfformiad ffarwel, yn ogystal ag un o uchafbwyntiau cerddorol ei saith mlynedd gyda nhw. Arweiniodd hefyd berfformiad prin o New Year gan Tippett gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni BBC yr Alban, gan ei recordio i’wrhyddhau ar NMC.

Ymysg ei uchafbwyntiau symffonig diweddar mae arwain Symffoni Fetropolitan Tokyo ynSuntory Hall, Boulez gyda Symffoni’r BBC, ei ymddangosiad cyntaf gyda SymffoniGenedlaethol Denmarc a dychwelyd at Symffoni Antwerp, BBC yr Alban a CherddorfaGenedlaethol Gymreig y BBC. Y tymor diwethaf, dychwelodd at gerddorfeydd SymffoniAdelaide a BBC yr Alban, Lahti Sinfonia a Deutsche Radiophilharmonie. Mae eiuchafbwyntiau ym Malmö y tymor hwn yn cynnwys Concerto Korngold i’r Ffidil gydaBomsori Kim, concerto Jörg Widmann i’r utgorn Towards Paradise, Labyrinth VI, gydaHåkan Hardenberger a chyngerdd blynyddol Nos Galan.

Mae ei recordiadau llwyddiannus o bron i 150 o gryno ddisgiau’n amrywio o rai Rhamantaidd i rai cyfoes. Mae wedi cael tair Gwobr Gramophone, Gwobr Opera Cannes a’rGrand Prix du Disque.

Astudiodd Martyn Brabbins gyfansoddi yn Llundain ac arwain gydag Ilya Musin yn St Petersburg, cyn ennill y wobr gyntaf yng Nghystadleuaeth Arweinwyr Leeds ym 1988 a lansiodd ei yrfa ryngwladol.