Tabita Berglund is one of today’s most exciting, talented and in-demand young conductorswho has gained a reputation for her alert, charismatic and inspiring style, which elicits“exceptional music-making” (The Arts Desk). This season, Berglund begins her four-yeartenure as Principal Guest Conductor of Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and from the 2025–26 season, she holds the same title with Dresdner Philharmonie; she was appointed toeach position following her respective debut.

Symphonic highlights of the 2024–25 season include debuts with the Houston Symphony,Minnesota Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Orchestre dechambre de Paris, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Iceland SymphonyOrchestra, and Lahti Symphony Orchestra, as well as Berglund’s inaugural weeks as DetroitSymphony Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor—the first featuring the US premiere ofAnna Clyne’s violin concerto Time and Tides with fellow HarrisonParrott artist PekkaKuusisto. Other notable season highlights include Berglund’s Asian debut with TokyoMetropolitan Symphony Orchestra, her Salzburg Easter Festival debut togetherwith Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, a European tour with Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,and returns to Dresdner Philharmonie, Royal Stockholm PhilharmonicOrchestra, Orchestre national de Lyon, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, andTrondheim Symphony Orchestra. In December 2024, she conducts The NorwegianNational Ballet in 12 performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.

Berglund regularly collaborates with internationally renowned soloists; recent andupcoming partnerships include Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Leila Josefowicz, Truls Mørk, CédricTiberghien, Nicolas Altstaedt, Håkan Hardenberger, Alexander Malofeev, the Jussenbrothers, and Camilla Tilling, to name a few. In 2024–25, she continues to champion themusic of Nordic compatriots such as Thorvaldsdottir, Saariaho, Sibelius, Svendsen, andIrgens Jensen, as part of a wide-ranging repertoire from Mozart and Beethoven to Dvořák,Mussorgsky, Poulenc, Lutosławski, and Britten, among many others.

Recent engagements include appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, DetroitSymphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio SymphonyOrchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre national deLyon, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Berner Symphonieorchester, City of BirminghamSymphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Düsseldorfer Symphoniker,among many others. Festival appearances include Festival Internacional de Músicay Danza de Granada and Grafenegg. Additionally, Berglund made her Garsington Operadebut in summer 2024, conducting a revival production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Sheconcluded her three-year tenure as Principal Guest Conductor of Kristiansand SymphonyOrchestra at the end of the 2023–24 season. In August 2024, she chaired the jury for thegrand finale of the Eurovision Young Musicians competition, broadcast live on televisionthroughout Europe via the major networks.

Berglund studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, first as a cellist with Truls Mørk andlater orchestral conducting with Ole Kristian Ruud. She played regularly with the Oslo andBergen Philharmonic orchestras, as well as the Trondheim Soloists, before conductingbecame her main focus. Her debut album, with Oslo Philharmonic and violinist SonokoMiriam Welde, was released in 2021 (LAWO) and nominated for a Norwegian Grammy(Spellemann) in the 2022 Classical Music category.

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In a career spanning over two decades, the indisputable winner of the Grand Prix at the 2016 International Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition, Lukáš Vondráček has travelled the world and performed with the foremost orchestras such as The Philadelphia Orchestra,Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, West Australian Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan, Frankfurt Radio, Czech Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony and Oslo Philharmonic. He is a frequent collaborator of conductors such as Paavo Järvi, Gianandrea Noseda, Jakub Hrůša, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Klaus Mäkelä, Michael Tilson Thomas, Giancarlo Guerrero, Manfred Honeck, Xian Zhang, Pietari Inkinen, Vasily Petrenko, AnuTali, and Stéphane Denève, among many others.

In recitals, Lukáš has performed at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, the Flagey in Brussels, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and to renowned festivals such as Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Edinburgh International Festival, Chopin and his Europe, Le Piano Symphonique at KKL, PianoEspoo in Finland, Prague Spring Festival and Lille Piano Festival.

Lukáš Vondráček’s 2024/25 season highlights include frequent collaborations with Luzern Symphony Orchestra as he looks forward to the performances with them both in Lucerne and at the Dvořák Prague Festival. This season Lukáš also rejoins his frequent collaborators Bamberg Symphony and Jakub Hrůša for performances across Asia.Further season highlights are performances with theChicago Symphony OrchestraunderMarin Alsop, Copenhagen Philharmonicunder Thomas Dausgaard, Orchestre National de Lille under Jean-Claude Casadesus, Dresden Philharmonic under Maxim Emelyanychev, Janáček Philharmonic under Daniel Raiskin and Prague Symphony Orchestra under Tomáš Brauner. Lukáš’s recitals this season include appearances at the Salle Philharmonique in Liège and at Flagey in Brussels.

At the age of four Lukáš Vondráček made his first public appearance. As a 15-year-old in 2002 he made his debut with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy which was followed by a major US tour in2003. His natural and assured musicality and remarkable technique have long marked him out as a gifted and mature musician. He has achieved worldwide recognition by receiving many international awards, foremost first prizes at the Hilton Head and San Marino International Piano Competitions and Unisa International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as the Raymond E. Buck Jury Discretionary Award at the 2009 International Van Cliburn Piano Competition.

Lukáš Vondráček obtained an Artist Diploma from Boston's New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Hung-Kuan Chen, graduating with honours in 2012.