British conductor Adam Hickox is praised repeatedly for his masterful and expressive
interpretations and is in increasing demand across the world both on the concert
platform and in the opera house. In September 2025 he started his tenure as Chief
Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony and across the 2025/26 season makes several
major operatic and symphonic debuts.
This season’s highlights include debuts with the Dresden Staatskapelle, Frankfurt
Radio and Hamburg Symphony orchestras, the Oslo Philharmonic in their annual
televised summer concert at the Royal Palace and with the Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra, as well as return engagements such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and
BBC Philharmonic orchestras; he conducts a characteristically wide range of
repertoire and performs with soloists such as Vilde Frang, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet,
Lawrence Power and Paul Lewis. In previous seasons, Adam Hickox has conducted
orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande,
Rotterdam Philharmonic, Dresdner Philharmonie, Danish National Symphony, London
Philharmonic and BBC Symphony, many of whom are re-inviting him in the coming
seasons.
Adam Hickox is equally committed to the opera house and in 2025/26 will make his debut at
Dutch National Opera conducting Weinberg’s "The Passenger", a revival of the Tobias
Kratzer production that received its premiere at the Bavarian State Opera (Munich) in
2024. Recent opera productions have included "Candide" at Norwegian National
Opera, "Hänsel und Gretel" at Staatsoper Hamburg, "Tosca" at Opera North and "La
bohème" and "La traviata" at Glyndebourne’s Autumn season. He was Principal
Conductor of The Glyndebourne Sinfonia from 2023 to 2025.
Adam Hickox studied music and composition with Robin Holloway at Gonville and Caius
College Cambridge, and conducting with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of
Music. He was Assistant Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic from 2019 to 2022,
working closely with Lahav Shani, and in 2021 he was invited to Tanglewood as one
of the Festival's two Conducting Fellows.