These concerts are Alpesh Chauhan's debut with the North Carolina Symphony.
British conductor Alpesh Chauhan is Principal Guest Conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Associate Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company. A frequent guest conductor with international orchestras, he enjoys collaborations with soloists such as Colin Currie, Benjamin Grosvenor, Stephen Hough, and Johannes Moser, among many others.
Highlights for the 2022/23 season include debuts with the Seattle Symphony with Hilary Hahn, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Hallé, the Melbourne and Adelaide symphony orchestras, Poznań Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and Symphony Orchestra of India, as well as returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
Chauhan is a patron of Awards for Young Musicians, a UK charity supporting talented young people from disadvantaged backgrounds on their musical journeys. He has also worked with ensembles such as the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and the symphony orchestras of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Northern College of Music. He was the conductor of the 2015 BBC Ten Pieces film, which brought the world of classical music into secondary schools across the UK and received a BAFTA award.
Born in Birmingham, Chauhan studied cello and conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He served as Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2014 to 2016. Following a 2015 debut, he was Principal Conductor of Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma from 2017 to 2020.
Named “Newcomer of the Year” in the 2021 International Opera Awards, Chauhan received the Conductor Award from the Italian National Association of Music Critics in 2022. Also in 2022, he received an OBE in HRH The Queen's New Year's Honours for Services to the Arts.
