Robin Ticciati was the Music Director of the DSO from September 2017 to December 2024. In 2014 he took on the role of Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. From 2009 to 2017 he held the position of Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He regularly appears as a guest conductor with renowned orchestras such as the London Symphony, the BR-Symphonieorchester, the Wiener Philharmoniker, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In the 2023/2024 season, he made his long-awaited debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Staatskapelle Berlin. Ticciati and the DSO have released highly acclaimed CDs on the British label Linn Records with works by Bruckner, Debussy, Duparc, Fauré, Rachmaninoff and Strauss. In 2014, he was appointed ‘Sir Colin Davis Fellow of Conducting’ at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2019, Robin Ticciati was awarded an OBE for services to music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.