Russia-friendly conductor gets new agent

The British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig has been in the news of late for breaking sanctions by performing in Putin’s Russia.

Some western ensembles will not employ him.

But the Munich-based Felsner Artists has bravely taken him on. Here’s their promo copy.

Internationally renowned conductor Jan Latham-Koenig has a vast symphonic and operatic repertoire that has led him to regularly work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Wiener Symphoniker, Tonhalle Zurich, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and Japan Philharmonic. As of 2023 he is the Music Director at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and Artistic Director of the Festival Puccini Torre del Lago at Torre del Lago.
Latham-Koenig studied at the Royal College of Music in London and began his career as a concert conductor with the BBC. He won the Gulbenkian Fellowship and became a permanent guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera. Latham-Koenig held music director positions at Flanders Symphony Orchestra in Bruges; Filarmonica del Teatro Regio, Turin; Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Novaya Opera, Moscow; Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, Mexico City; Orchestra of Porto; Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile; Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Opéra National du Rhin. He has formed several orchestras, including the Orchestra of Porto, the Young Janáček Philharmonic, and the Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra.
Felsner Artists proudly welcomes Jan Latham-Koenig for worldwide general management!