Today, our Conductor Laureate and long-standing friend Daniel Harding is celebrating his 40th birthday.
Daniel, we wish you a very happy day and look forward to sharing many more experiences with you in the years to come.
Daniel Harding has been with us from the very beginning, and it is no exaggeration to say that we have grown up together. Daniel was 22 years old when he first conducted our orchestra, and we were all about the same age. Over the past 18 years, we have travelled to 91 cities in 20 countries together, and Daniel has conducted the MCO in 361 concerts. Daniel, thank you for everything we have learned from you, and for the countless musical and personal highlights we have shared in the 82 tours with you. We look forward to many more!
Your Mahler Chamber Orchestra
1998, Aix-en-Provence
Daniel Harding, with MCO Founding Mentor Claudio Abbado and stage director Peter Brook, sitting by the pit at the orchestra’s breakthrough project in Aix-en-Provence, Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Shortly after this project, Daniel was named Principal Guest Conductor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Photo: Elisabeth Carecchio
Two new leaders in the violins. Daniel and Claudio show us how it’s done…
Photos: Archive Mette Tjaerby-Korneliusen
2003, Ferrara
Daniel Harding, now Music Director of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducting Dvořák’s Symphony no. 8.
Photo: Purdom-Archivio Ferrara Musica
2003, Lucerne
Checking out a new MCO brochure with concertmaster Antonello Manacorda and violinists Cindy Albracht and Paulien Holthuis.
Photo: Archive Cindy Albracht
2006, Lucerne Festival
Fun moment during the rehearsals for the World Premiere of Matthias Pinscher’s Flute Concerto, with soloist Emmanuel Pahud.
Photo: Priska Ketterer/ Lucerne Festival
2008, Turin
With Isabelle Faust on an Italy tour with Dvořák’s Violin Concerto.
Photo: Juzzolo
2009, Dortmund
Daniel conducting the very first project of the newly founded MCO Academy.
Photo: Georg Schreiber
2011, Tokyo
In summer 2011, the musicians voted unanimously to give Daniel Harding the permanent title of Conductor Laureate.
Photo: K. Miura/Bunkamur
2015 – Happy Birthday Daniel!
We look forward to our next project, playing Mahler’s Symphony no. 2 with you in spring 2016.
Photo: Julian Hargreaves
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