No. 2060 Subscription (Program A)

Fabio Luisi hails from Genoa. He first conducted the NHK Symphony Orchestra in 2001 and became its Chief Conductor in September 2022. He performed Verdi’s Requiem to celebrate his appointment, and Mahler’s Symphonie der Tausend for the orchestra’s 2000th subscription concert in 2023. In 2024, he led the orchestra’s Taiwanese tour, and then in May 2025, he successfully led its European tour scheduled in conjunction with Amsterdam’s Mahler Festival at The Concertgebouw, the Prague Spring Festival and the Dresdner Musikfestspiele: the NHK Symphony Orchestra was the first Asian orchestra to appear at the Mahler Festival, performing the composer’s Symphonies No. 3 and No. 4 to critical praise. Currently the Principal Conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, he was General Music Director of the Opernhaus Zürich, Principal Conductor of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Chief Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker, General Music Director of the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Sächsische Staatsoper, Principal Conductor and Chief Conductor of the MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Artistic Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Chief Conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchester and Artistic Director of the Grazer Symphonisches Orchester. He is also Music Director of Puglia’s Festival della Valle d’Itria Martina Franca and Emeritus Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai. He is a frequent guest of leading orchestras including the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Saito Kinen Orchestra, opera houses and festivals worldwide. In recording, his complete Nielsen symphonic cycle with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra was recognized with Limelight and Abbiati Awards in 2023, while its first volume was named Recording of the Year by Gramophone. He received a Grammy Award for his leadership of the last two operas of Wagner’s Ring cycle at the Metropolitan Opera, as released on DVD. His first CD with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (1st version) was released in May 2025.
He is an accomplished composer and maker of perfumes.

Berlin-born world-renowned cellist Jan Vogler is praised by The New York Times for his “soulful, richly hued playing,” and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung touts his ability “to make his cello speak like a singing voice.”
His distinguished career as soloist has brought him together with internationally acclaimed orchestras, such as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago, Boston and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wiener Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alongside renowned conductors including Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Andris Nelsons, Antonio Pappano and Kent Nagano.
He has been Intendant of the renowned Dresdner Musikfestspiele since October 2008 as well as Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Festival since 2001. He is constantly looking for new ways to combine music with other arts as well. In 2024, he gave a highly acclaimed concert with inaugural-poet Amanda Gorman in Carnegie Hall. He has also collaborated with actor Bill Murray for their joint musical-literary project “Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends – New Worlds.”
For his first appearances in the NHK Symphony Orchestra’s subscription series, he will serve as the soloist for Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 under the direction of Fabio Luisi. In May 2025 Vogler made his debut with the orchestra, conducted by Luisi, performing the same work in Dresden as part of the orchestra’s European tour.
Awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, he plays the Stradivari ‘Ex Castelbarco/Fau’ 1707 cello.