‘With the COE, I don’t feel I’m a conductor anymore. I feel I’m a musician who can make music with them.’
— Bernard Haitink, Conductor

Honorary Members

Current COE Honorary members Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir András Schiff highlighted below follow in the footsteps of Bernard Haitink and Nikolaus and Alice Harnoncourt.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
Sir András Schiff, Pianist
Bernard Haitink †, Conductor
Nikolaus Harnoncourt †, Conductor

Conductors

Over the years, the COE has been fortunate to have important and particularly close relationships with the following conductors:

Claudio Abbado, Conductor †
Paavo Berglund, Conductor †
Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor
Robin Ticciati, Conductor
  • Conductors
    Robert Abbado
    David Afkham
    Thomas Adès
    Vladimir Ashkenazy
    George Benjamin
    Herbert Blomstedt
    Douglas Boyd
    Semyon Bychkov
    Karina Canellakis
    Constantinos Carydis
    Myung Whun Chung
    Nicholas Collon
    James Conlon
    Teodor Currentzis
    Thomas Dausgaard
    Andrew Davis
    Richard Egarr
    Maxim Emelyanychev
    Peter Eötvös
    Christoph Eschenbach
    Adam Fischer
    Ivan Fischer
    Thierry Fischer
    Claus Peter Flor
    Lawrence Foster
    Sir John Eliot Gardiner
    Gianluigi Gelmetti
    Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
    Daniel Harding
    Thomas Hengelbrock
    Heinz Holliger
    Manfred Honeck
    Jakub Hrůša
    Philippe Jordan
    James Judd
    Vladimir Jurowski
    Jacek Kasprzyk
    Gérard Korsten
    Emmanuel Krivine
    François Leleux
    Susanna Mälkki
    Andrew Manze
    Ingo Metzmacher
    Marc Minkowski
    Kent Nagano
    John Nelson
    Yannick Nézet-Séguin*
    Sir Roger Norrington
    Gianandrea Noseda
    Sakari Oramo
    Andrés Orozco-Estrada
    Sir Antonio Pappano
    Rafael Payare
    Murray Perahia
    Libor Pesek
    Trevor Pinnock
    Matthias Pintscher
    Jean-Bernard Pommier
    Julian Rachlin
    Sir Simon Rattle*
    Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
    Jukka-Pekka Saraste
    Sir András Schiff*
    Anu Tali
    Robin Ticciati
    Michael Tilson-Thomas
    Valentin Uryupin
    Osmo Vänskä
    Edo de Waart
    Ryan Wigglesworth
    Thomas Zehetmair
    Jaap van Zweden
    Claudio Abbado †
    Rudolf Barshai †
    Jiri Belohlavek †
    Paavo Berglund †
    Pierre Boulez †
    Frans Brüggen †
    Sir Colin Davis †
    Carlo Maria Giulini †
    Bernard Haitink*†
    Nikolaus Harnoncourt*†
    Oliver Knussen †
    Yakov Kreizberg †
    Erich Leinsdorf †
    Lorin Maazel †
    Sir Charles Mackerras †
    Sir Neville Marriner †
    Yehudi Menuhin †
    Georges Prêtres †
    Msistlav Rostropovich †
    Heinrich Schiff †
    Alexander Schneider †
    Oscar Shumsky †
    Sir Georg Solti †
    Sandor Vegh †

Soloists

The COE has developed particularly close relationships with a number of eminent soloists and directors over the years including:

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Pianist
Emanuel Ax, Pianist
Lisa Batiashvili, Violinist
Joshua Bell, Violinist
Renaud Capuçon, Violinist
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano
Isabelle Faust, Violinist
Janine Jansen, Violinist
Patricia Kopatchinskaya, Violinist
Magdalena Kožená, Mezzo-Soprano
  • Soloists
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard
    Salvatore Accardo
    Louise Alder
    Piotr Anderszewski
    Leif Ove Andsnes
    Martha Argerich
    Yulianna Avdeeva
    Emanuel Ax
    Olaf Bär
    Iddo Bar-Shai
    Cecilia Bartoli
    Yuri Bashmet
    Lisa Batiashvili
    Kathleen Battle
    Daniel Behle
    Joshua Bell
    Roberto Benigni
    Kristian Bezuidenhout
    Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich
    Kolja Blacher
    Barbara Bonney
    Florian Bösch
    Ian Bostridge
    Frank Braley
    Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Guy Braunstein
    Michelle Breedt
    Yefim Bronfman
    Angela Brower
    Bruno Canino
    Gautier Capuçon
    Renaud Capuçon
    Karen Cargill
    Gianluca Cascioli
    Bertrand Chamayou
    Seong-Jin Cho
    Allan Clayton
    Lucy Crowe
    Ildebrando d'Arcangelo
    Bernard d'Ascoli
    Diana Damrau
    Iestyn Davies
    Michele deYoung
    Joyce DiDonato
    Placido Domingo
    Maria Duenas
    Veronika Eberle
    James Ehnes
    Mojca Erdmann
    Isabelle Faust
    Gerald Finley
    Julia Fischer
    Renee Fleming
    Vilde Frang
    Martin Fröst
    Sir James Galway
    David Garrett
    Christian Gerhaher
    Alban Gerhardt
    Kirill Gerstein
    Matthias Goerne
    Hélène Grimaud
    Tatiana Grindenko
    Ilya Gringolts
    Werner Güra
    Natalia Gutman
    Augustin Hadelich
    Clemens Hagen
    Julia Hagen
    Hilary Hahn
    Thomas Hampson
    Barbara Hendricks
    Rolf Hind
    Heinz Holliger
    Daniel Hope
    Alina Ibragimova
    Soile Isokoski
    Steven Isserlis
    Alexander Janiczek
    Janine Jansen
    Isabelle Kabatu
    Christiane Karg
    Leonidas Kavakos
    Simon Keenlyside
    Marianne Beate Kielland
    Sunwook Kim
    Evgeny Kissin
    Anu Komsi
    Patricia Kopatchinskaya
    Magdalena Kožená
    Gidon Kremer
    Elisabeth Kulman
    Pekka Kuusisto
    Katia and Marielle Labèque
    François Leleux
    Jonathan Lemalu
    Peter Lika
    John Lill
    Marjana Lipovsek
    Jan Lisiecki
    Alexander Lonquich
    Louis Lortie
    Mischa Maisky
    Charlotte Margiono
    Anthony Marwood
    Sally Matthews
    Karita Mattila
    Waltraud Meier
    Sabine Meyer
    Shlomo Minz
    Johannes Moser
    Regula Mühlemann
    Daniel Müller-Schott
    Hanno Müller-Brachmann
    Viktoria Mullova
    Anne-Sophie Mutter
    Luba Orgonasova
    Alice-Sara Ott
    Cécile Ousset
    Emmanuel Pahud
    Murray Perahia
    Miklós Perényi
    Miah Persson
    Michele Pertusi
    Francesco Piemontesi
    Maria Joao Pires
    Luca Pisaroni
    Adam Plachetka
    Mikhail Pletnev
    Alina Pogotskina
    Jean-Bernard Pommier
    Anna Prohaska
    Thomas Quasthoff
    Jean-Guihen Queyras
    Julian Rachlin
    Ruggero Raimondi
    Samuel Ramey
    Beatrice Rana
    Marina Rebeka
    Katia Ricciarelli
    Anna Lucia Richter
    Matti Salminen
    Sir András Schiff*
    Golda Schulz
    Franz-Josef Selig
    Valeriy Sokolov
    Toby Spence
    Jean-Louis Steuerman
    Tamara Stefanovich
    Barbara Sukova
    Akiko Suwanai
    Antoine Tamestit
    Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
    Sir Bryn Terfel
    Christian Tetzlaff
    Jean-Yves Thibaudet
    Nobuyuki Tsujii
    Mitsuko Uchida
    Violetta Urmana
    Osmo Vänskä
    Dénes Várjon
    Rolando Villazon
    Stefan Vladar
    Elizabeth von Magnus
    Anne-Sofie von Otter
    Frederika von Stade
    Yuja Wang
    Alisa Weilerstein
    Eva-Maria Westbroek
    Caroline Widmann
    Sonya Yoncheva
    Thomas Zehetmair
    Ruth Ziesak
    Frank-Peter Zimmermann
    Tabea Zimmermann
    Jacques Zoon
    Nicholas Angelich †
    Hildegard Behrens †
    Maurice Bourgue †
    Julian Bream †
    Alfred Brendel †
    Monserrat Caballe †
    Enzo Dara †
    Maria Ewing †
    Dietrich Fisher-Diskau †
    Edita Gruberova †
    Friedrich Gulda †
    Zoltan Kocsis †
    Radu Lupu †
    Jessye Norman †
    Luciano Pavarotti †
    Maurizio Pollini †
    Margaret Price †
    Mstislav Rostropovich†
    Heinrich Schiff †
    Rudolf Serkin †
    Lucia Valentina Terrani †
    Deon van der Walt †
    Galina Vishnevskaya †
    Lars Vogt †
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