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Jonathan Bloxham

Conductor
Chief Conductor, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
Music Director, Luzerner Theater
Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, London Mozart Players

  • British conductor Jonathan Bloxham was appointed Music Director of the Luzerner Theater in 2023, where he consistently achieves excellent artistic results in a wide range of repertoire. In the 2025/26 season Bloxham conducts new productions of Peter Grimes, L’elisir d’amore, and Die Zauberflöte. Bloxham made his Glyndebourne Festival debut in 2021, conducting Luisa Miller with the London Philharmonic. In the same year he conducted Glyndebourne Touring Opera’s production of Don Pasquale, having performed Rigoletto with the orchestra in 2019.

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  • This season will be Bloxham’s second year as Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie following in the footsteps of Andris Nelsons and Jonothan Heyward. Last season he led them on two national tours and in their subscription series in Herford, with two further tours planned for this season. In 2021 he recorded a CD of Strauss and Franck with the orchestra, described as "irresistible" by Musicweb International.


    The 2025/26 season will also mark Bloxham’s first as Principal Conductor of the London Mozart Players, building on his long-standing relationship with the ensemble, which he has served as Resident Conductor and Artistic Advisor since 2022. Season highlights include Mozart, Master of Drama, the opening concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields with Danielle De Niese, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a celebratory performance at Fairfield Halls marking the 150th anniversary of the Croydon-born composer. Bloxham also leads the orchestra in the world premieres of works by Anna Clyne, Stephen McNeff, Tunde Jegede and Ryan Morgan.


    Guest highlights of the past couple of seasons have included London Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Tokyo Symphony, Salzburg Mozarteumorchester, Halle Orchestra, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Belgian National, Residentie Orkest, Tonkuenstlerorchester Wien at the Grafenegg Festival, Bonn Beethovenorchester, Trondheim Symphony and Philharmonic Brass (musicians from Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras) – many of these on multiple occasions. This season he conducts the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Bremer Philharmoniker, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with 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 (2022) and London Mozart Players (2023).


    Bloxham’s conducting career began in 2016 when he became Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. Prior 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 Bloxham has been Artistic Director of the annual Northern Chords Festival in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

    488 words – 25/26 biography, as of 8 July 2025. Not to be altered without the permission of Intermusica Artists’ Management.

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"Under the baton of Jonathan Bloxham, the orchestra performs fearsomely with rich brass, war drums, timpani and trumpets and, with a lot of string melody and woodwind poetry, anticipates how heartfelt the singing will be this evening...it is rare to hear such a symphonic sound in the Luzerner Theater, which is sharpened with much brio, breathes freely and moves at the upper volume level."

Luzerner Zeitung, December 2023

"With Mendelssohn's 'Scottish', Bloxham once again took centre stage with the NDR Elbphilharmonie. His rehearsal defined the work with an overwhelming richness of colour, both in the striking effects and the very special moments. The opening of the Adagio is magical in itself, but Bloxham made even the banal clarinet fifths into more than an imitation of bagpipes, the low flutes into more than an image of cloudy peaks." 

Luebecker Nachrichten, September 2023

“All credit to the London Mozart Players…its presentation of this event – with lively programme notes and illustrated spoken introductions to the music from the stage – suggested an ensemble determined to make its musical offering as accessible as possible…ebullient conductor…played joyously and in fine style”

The Times, February 2023

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