About Conrad

The international maestro Conrad van Alphen enjoys standing ovations with top orchestras around the globe. As a guest conductor Conrad works with some of the world’s most respected orchestras, such as the Montreal and Svetlanov Symphony Orchestras, the Stuttgart, Brussels, Bogota and Moscow Philharmonics, the Bochumer Symphoniker as well as the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
He enjoys a particularly close association with the Russian National Orchestra and its founder Mikhail Pletnev. Furthermore he is an artist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, in which capacity he regularly conducts the major Moscow orchestras and many more throughout Russia. For four years he was chief conductor of the State Safonov Philharmonic Orchestra.
At the turn of the new millennium, Conrad founded Sinfonia Rotterdam, of which he remains chief conductor and artistic director. The orchestra presents concert series at de Doelen in Rotterdam, at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague and at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Under Conrad’s leadership, it has become an internationally recognised ensemble, has made acclaimed recordings, and has toured Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Chile, China and Russia.





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