‘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 Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir András Schiff and Robin Ticciati highlighted below follow in the footsteps of Claudio Abbado, Paavo Berglund, Bernard Haitink and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Antonio Pappano
Simon Rattle
András Schiff
Robin Ticciati
Conductors
Over the years, the COE has been fortunate to have had important and particularly close relationships with the following musicians:
Claudio Abbado, Artistic Adviser
Paavo Berglund
Bernard Haitink, Honorary Member
Nikolaus and Alice Harnoncourt, Honorary Members
- ConductorsRoberto AbbadoSalvatore AccardoDavid AfkhamThomas AdèsVladimir AshkenazyGeorge BenjaminHerbert BlomstedtDouglas BoydSemyon BychkovKarina CanellakisConstantinos CarydisMyung Whun ChungNicholas CollonJames ConlonTeodor CurrentzisThomas DausgaardAndrew DavisRichard EgarrMaxim EmelyanychevPeter EötvösChristoph EschenbachAdam FischerIvan FischerThierry FischerLawrence FosterJohn Eliot GardinerGianluigi GelmettiMirga Gražinytė-TylaDaniel HardingThomas HengelbrockHeinz HolligerManfred HoneckJakub HrůšaPhilippe JordanJames JuddVladimir JurowskiJacek KasprzykGérard KorstenEmmanuel KrivineFrançois LeleuxSusanna MälkkiAndrew ManzeIngo MetzmacherMarc MinkowskiKent NaganoJohn NelsonYannick Nézet-Séguin*Sir Roger NorringtonGianandrea NosedaSakari OramoAndrés Orozco-EstradaSir Antonio Pappano*Rafael PayareLibor PesekTrevor PinnockMatthias PintscherJean-Bernard PommierJulian RachlinSir Simon Rattle*Gennadi RozhdestvenskyJukka-Pekka SarasteSir András Schiff*Anu TaliRobin TicciatiMichael Tilson-ThomasValentin UryupinOsmo VänskäRyan WigglesworthJaap van ZwedenClaudio 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 †Heinrich Schiff †Alexander Schneider †Oscar Shumsky †Sir Georg Solti †Sandor Vegh †
Soloists
During the 2025/2026 season, in addition to its Honorary Members, the COE is also working with other eminent artists including:
Martha Argerich, Piano
Iddo Bar-Shai, Piano
Renaud Capuçon, Violin
María Dueñas, Violin
Veronika Eberle, Violin
Vilde Frang, Violin
Kirill Gerstein, Piano
Eva Gevorgyan, Piano
Janine Jansen, Violin
Clara-Jumi Kang, Violin
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello
Julian Rachlin, Violin and Conductor
Golda Schultz, Soprano
- SoloistsPierre-Laurent AimardSalvatore AccardoLouise AlderPiotr AnderszewskiNicolas AltstaedtLeif Ove AndsnesMartha ArgerichYulianna AvdeevaEmanuel AxOlaf BärIddo Bar-ShaiCecilia BartoliYuri BashmetLisa BatiashviliKathleen BattleDaniel BehleJoshua BellRoberto BenigniKristian BezuidenhoutStephen Bishop-KovacevichKolja BlacherBarbara BonneyFlorian BoeschIan BostridgeFrank BraleyKlaus Maria BrandauerGuy BraunsteinMichelle BreedtYefim BronfmanAngela BrowerBruno CaninoGautier CapuçonRenaud CapuçonKaren CargillGianluca CascioliBertrand ChamayouBryan ChengSeong-Jin ChoAllan ClaytonMartina ConsonniLucy CroweCsilla CsöváriIldebrando d'ArcangeloBernard d'AscoliDiana DamrauIestyn DaviesMichele deYoungJoyce DiDonatoPlacido DomingoMaria DuenasVeronika EberleJames EhnesMojca ErdmannIsabelle FaustGerald FinleyJulia FischerRenee FlemingVilde FrangMartin FröstSir James GalwayDavid GarrettChristian GerhaherAlban GerhardtKirill GersteinMatthias GoerneHélène GrimaudTatiana GrindenkoIlya GringoltsWerner GüraNatalia GutmanAugustin HadelichClemens HagenJulia HagenWilliam HagenHilary HahnThomas HampsonBarbara HendricksRolf HindHeinz HolligerDaniel HopeAlina IbragimovaSoile IsokoskiSteven IsserlisAlexander JaniczekJanine JansenIsabelle KabatuChristiane KargLeonidas KavakosSimon KeenlysideMarianne Beate KiellandSunwook KimEvgeny KissinAnu KomsiPatricia KopatchinskayaMagdalena KoženáGidon KremerElisabeth KulmanPekka KuusistoKatia LabèqueMarielle LabèqueFrançois LeleuxJonathan LemaluPeter LikaJohn LillMarjana LipovsekJan LisieckiAlexander LonquichLouis LortieMischa MaiskyCharlotte MargionoAnthony MarwoodSally MatthewsKarita MattilaWaltraud MeierSabine MeyerShlomo MintzJohannes MoserRegula MühlemannDaniel Müller-SchottHanno Müller-BrachmannViktoria MullovaAnne-Sophie MutterLuba OrgonasovaAlice-Sara OttCécile OussetEmmanuel PahudMurray PerahiaMiklós PerényiMiah PerssonMichele PertusiFrancesco PiemontesiMaria João PiresLuca PisaroniAdam PlachetkaMikhail PletnevAlina PogotskinaJean-Bernard PommierBlake PouliotAnna ProhaskaThomas QuasthoffJean-Guihen QueyrasJulian RachlinRuggero RaimondiSamuel RameyBeatrice RanaMarina RebekaKatia RicciarelliAnna Lucia RichterMatti SalminenSir András Schiff*Golda SchultzFranz-Josef SeligIzabella SimonValeriy SokolovToby SpenceJean-Louis SteuermanTamara StefanovichBarbara SukovaAkiko SuwanaiAntoine TamestitDame Kiri Te KanawaSir Bryn TerfelChristian TetzlaffJean-Yves ThibaudetNobuyuki TsujiiMitsuko UchidaVioleta UrmanaDénes VárjonRolando VillazonStefan VladarElizabeth von MagnusAnne-Sofie von OtterFrederika von StadeYuja WangAlisa WeilersteinEva-Maria WestbroekCaroline WidmannJörg WidmannSonya YonchevaThomas ZehetmairRuth ZiesakFrank-Peter ZimmermannTabea ZimmermannJacques ZoonNicholas 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 †