Sir Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is a British-German conductor. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2002 to 2018. He has been the music director of the London Symphony Orchestra since September 2017. Among the world's leading conductors, in a 2015 Bachtrack poll, he was ranked by music critics as one of the world's best living conductors.Rattle is also the patron of Birmingham Schools' Symphony Orchestra, arranged during his tenure with CBSO in the mid-1990s. The Youth Orchestra is now under the auspices of charitable business Services for Education. He received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2001 at the Classic Brit Awards.

The Roaring Seventies - 2025-02-09T00:00:00.000000Z

The Prodigy Conductor - 2025-01-13T00:00:00.000000Z

The Berlin Years - 2024-04-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Britten: Spring Symphony, Sinfonia da Requiem, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - 2024-04-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Janáček: Katya Kabanova - 2024-02-23T00:00:00.000000Z

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