Kerem Hasan is regarded as one of the most exciting young British conductors. By winning the prestigious Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award in the summer of 2017, he laid the foundation for an international career. From September 2019 to June 2023, he was Chief Conductor of the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck. Since the start of the 2025/26 season, he is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Noord Nederlands Orkest.
The 2025/26 season begins with a special highlight for Kerem Hasan. He will conduct the new production of Jake Heggie’s "Dead Man Walking" at the English National Opera, featuring a star-studded cast including singers such as Christine Rice, Dame Sarah Connolly and Michael Mayes. In addition, he has been invited back to conduct the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, the PHION Orkest and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. He will be working for the first time with the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast. As part of his role as Principal Guest Conductor, he will appear with the Noord Nederlands Orkest on several occasions this season.
Kerem Hasan’s recent successes include numerous opera and concert engagements at an international level. He has conducted opera productions at the Welsh National Opera ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Opera North ("La Rondine"), English National Opera ("Carmen", "Così fan tutte"), at the Glyndebourne Festival ("The Magic Flute"), with Glyndebourne on Tour ("The Rake’s Progress") and at the Tiroler Landestheater ("Samson et Dalila", "Rigoletto", "The Rape of Lucretia", "La Traviata").
In the concert sector, he has worked with, amongst others, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Musikalische Akademie Mannheim, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Filarmonica Teatro La Fenice, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. In the USA, he has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra.
Kerem Hasan gained significant artistic inspiration from masterclasses with conductors such as David Zinman, Edo de Waart, Gianandrea Noseda, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Robert Spano. A formative collaboration linked him with Bernard Haitink, whom he assisted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, amongst others.
His participation in the Conducting Academy at the Aspen Music Festival also marked a significant stage in his artistic career. He attended the festival for the first time in 2016, returned in 2017 and was awarded the Aspen Conductor Prize. In August 2022, he returned to Aspen to conduct a concert with the Aspen Chamber Orchestra.
Kerem Hasan was born in London in 1992. He studied piano and conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He later completed his conducting studies at the Zurich University of the Arts under Johannes Schlaefli.