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Daniel Harding
Known for ActingBorn 1975-08-31 (age 50)Oxford, England
Harding was born in Oxford. He studied trumpet at Chetham's School of Music and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra at age 13. At age 17, Harding assembled a group of musicians to perform Pierrot Lunaire of Arnold Schoenberg, and sent a tape of the performance to Simon Rattle in Birmingham. After listening to this tape, Rattle hired Harding as an assistant to him at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for a year, from 1993 to 1994. Harding then attended the University of Cambridge, but after his first year at university, Claudio Abbado named him his assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Harding first conducted the Berlin Philharmonic at age 21. At the time of his first conducting appearance at The Proms in 1996, he was then the youngest-ever conductor to appear there. In 1997, Harding was the Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival alongside pianist Emanuel Ax. Harding has been music director of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (1997–2000), the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (1999–2003) and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (2003–2008). Harding now has the title of conductor laureate with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He conducted the 2005 opening night at La Scala, Milan in Idomeneo, as a substitute after the resignation of Riccardo Muti earlier in 2005. In 2004, Harding was appointed principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), as of 2006. One of his new projects with the LSO involved the Sound Adventures program for new compositions. With the LSO, he has conducted a commercial recording of the opera Billy Budd for EMI Classics. He became the Principal Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2007. In September 2009, he extended his contract as the orchestra's principal conductor through 2012. In April 2013, the orchestra further announced the extension of Harding's contract to 2015. With the orchestra, he has recorded commercially for the Sony Classical label. In June 2015, the Orchestre de Paris announced the appointment of Harding as its 9th principal conductor, effective September 2016. Harding concluded his tenure in the Orchestre de Paris post following the close of the 2018-2019 season. In October 2018, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra announced the extension of Harding's contract as principal conductor through 2023, along with granting him the new title of konstnärlig ledare (artistic leader).Read more
Movies & web series
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Don Giovanni
2002 · Movie
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Così fan tutte
2005 · Movie
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SIMON! The Joy of Conducting
2025 · Movie
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Edward Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius
2019 · Movie
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Hunter's Bride
2010 · Movie
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Lecture 21
2008 · Movie

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Harding e Levit con Brahms e Elgar
2026 · Movie

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Wagner: La Valchiria
2025 · Movie

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Puccini: Tosca / Daniel Harding - Opera in forma di concerto
2024 · Movie

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Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2022 - Tschaikowsky und Dvořák
2022 · Movie

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Classical Music at Odeonsplatz 2021 - Yuja Wang
2021 · Movie

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Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2021
2021 · Movie

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Martha Argerich & Maria João Pires Play Mozart Victoria Hall - Geneva
2021 · Movie
Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra)
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Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra)
2020 · Movie

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Europakonzert 2019 from Paris
2019 · Movie

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Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2016
2016 · Movie

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Schumann - Das Paradies und die Peri
2016 · Movie

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The Italian Character: The Story of a Great Italian Orchestra
2013 · Movie

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Ariadne auf Naxos
2012 · Movie

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Homage to Robert Schumann
2010 · Movie

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Don Giovanni
2006 · Movie

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A Mozart Gala from Salzburg
2006 · Movie
The Magic Flute
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The Magic Flute
2006 · Movie
Mahler Symphony No. 6 - Daniel Harding & Berliner Philharmoniker
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Mahler Symphony No. 6 - Daniel Harding & Berliner Philharmoniker
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