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British-born conductor Rumon Gamba is Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and guest conducts widely within Europe and abroad. He regularly conducts all the BBC orchestras, including for recordings and at the BBC Proms. Prominent engagements elsewhere have included the Munich Philharmonic, whom he has conducted on a number of occasions, NDR Hamburg, Orchestre National de Belgique, the Gothenburg Symphony and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.  

As well as returning to several orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba’s upcoming engagements include the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and his debut with the Osaka Philharmonic. Following a triumphant performance of Bernstein’s Candide with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, he makes his opera house debut with Candide in 2008 at the English National Opera.

Within North America Rumon Gamba has worked with the Toronto Symphony, the New York Philharmonic (youth concerts), NAC Ottawa, Indianapolis Symphony and the Florida Philharmonic. He has toured Australia where he conducted the Sydney, Melbourne and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, and he has also conducted the New Zealand Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, where great acclaim led to his immediate reinvitation.

His relationship with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra has gone from strength to strength and, following successful appearances in February 2007 in Cologne , Dusseldorf and at the Konzerthaus in Vienna , they will perform in Berlin and Munich this coming season. They have also released their first recordings on Chandos Records – two volumes of the orchestral works of Malcolm Williamson - and further recordings are planned during the 2007/08 season. 

Rumon Gamba records exclusively for Chandos with whom he has made a number of discs, including several award-winning CDs as part of the acclaimed Chandos Film Music series including a recent Grammy nomination for The Film Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

He has recently given several high profile premieres including the Icelandic premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Scherzoid, a co-commission with New York and London Philharmonic Orchestras, the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Viola Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and he conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the many forces required for the world premiere of Per Norgard’s oratorio, The Will O The Wisps Go To Town, commissioned in celebration of Hans Christian Andersen’s 200^th birthday anniversary.

Having studied with Colin Metters at the Royal Academy of Music, Rumon Gamba became the first ever conducting student to receive the DipRAM. He then went on to win the Lloyds Bank BBC Young Musicians Conductors Workshop in February 1998 and subsequently became Assistant and then Associate Conductor to the BBC Philharmonic until 2002. Rumon Gamba was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2002.

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