Robin Ticciati
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Robin Ticciati was born in 1983 in Barnes, London, the youngest of three siblings, all of which began playing music at an early age. Ticciati attended St. Paul's School in London, where he played the piano, violin, and percussion instruments. At 15 he had his first taste of conducting. He received ample support from Simon Rattle, soon becoming his 'Junior Assistant'. He continued on to Clare College, Cambridge, and embarked upon his conducting carrier. After graduating with a BA in music, he has conducted various orchestras around the world, notably becoming the youngest ever to conduct at the La Scala. In 2006 he assumed the position of Music Director and Artistic Advisor to the Gävle Symphony Orchestra (Sweden), and in 2007 he will become Music Director of Glyndebourne on Tour (GOT). He currently resides in London.
A review from 2005 responded to Ticciati's interpretation of Brahms thus:
“It was an impressive evening … his handling of Brahms’s Serenade No 1 was more than promising. It’s a long and diffuse score: part courtly dance suite, part folk rhapsody, and part dry run for the First Symphony that Brahms put off writing for so long. Consequently it isn’t often given an airing. But Ticciati brought out its ebullience, its depth and its subtleties, and the orchestra responded with verve…” The Times, London, 5 December 2005
