Kerem Hasan standing beside pale architectural panelling

Kerem Hasan

PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTORNoord Nederlands OrkestDESIGNATED GENERAL MUSIC DIRECTORBadisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

About

Principal Guest Conductor
Noord Nederlands Orkest

Designated General Music Director
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Kerem Hasan is regarded as one of the most exciting young British conductors. He is the designated General Music Director of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where he will begin his artistic collaboration at the start of the 2027/28 season. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Noord Nederlands Orkest, having previously served as Chief Conductor of the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck. He laid the foundation for his international career in 2017 by winning the prestigious Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award.

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He opens the 2026/27 season in the Netherlands with a concert project at the Residentie Orkest. This is followed by a tour with the Philharmonia Orchestra and organist Anna Lapwood, with concerts in Essen, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne and Rotterdam. Alongside his duties as Principal Guest Conductor in Groningen, further engagements bring him back to the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orkest Phion and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. He also makes his debuts with the Copenhagen Phil, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra.

He enjoyed great success last season with the new production of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking at English National Opera. He has also led productions at Welsh National Opera (Le nozze di Figaro), Opera North (La Rondine), English National Opera (Carmen, Così fan tutte), Glyndebourne on Tour (The Rake's Progress) and at the Tiroler Landestheater (Samson et Dalila, Rigoletto, The Rape of Lucretia, La Traviata).

Hasan received important artistic inspiration from masterclasses with conductors such as David Zinman, Edo de Waart, Gianandrea Noseda, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Robert Spano. A formative collaboration linked him with Bernard Haitink, whom he assisted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others. His participation in the Conducting Academy of the Aspen Music Festival also marked a significant stage in his artistic development, where he received the Aspen Conductor Prize in 2017.

Kerem Hasan was born in London. He studied piano and conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and later completed his training at the Zurich University of the Arts in the conducting class of Johannes Schlaefli.

SEASON 2026/2027

Kerem Hasan seated on a blue bench in an olive green sweater
Kerem Hasan seated on a wooden table in a dark blue shirt
Kerem Hasan with the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck
“What was impressive was how efficiently and confidently Hasan led the orchestra, showing remarkable maturity and insight...”
Stuttgarter Nachrichten · SWR Symphonieorchester, 2024

Schedule

Philharmonia Orchestra

Anna Lapwood · organ
Philharmonie Essen

Essen

Philharmonia Orchestra

Anna Lapwood · organ
Elbphilharmonie

Hamburg

Philharmonia Orchestra

Anna Lapwood · organ
Alte Oper Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Black and white portrait of Kerem Hasan
Kerem Hasan seated beneath curved brass lamps

Contact

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