Jan Latham-Koenig
Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig has had an unusually varied career, encompassing permanent posts and numerous guest appearances across Europe, the U.S., and Mexico. He is one of the few British conductors to have scored major successes in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Latham-Koenig was born in London on December 15, 1953. He studied at the Royal College of Music with Norman del Mar, Kendall Taylor, and Lamar Crowson. He founded the Koenig Ensemble in 1976, and in the early 1980s, he studied further under a Gulbenkian Fellowship. Early in his career, he was also active as a concert pianist. Latham-Koenig conducted Verdi's Macbeth at the Vienna State Opera in 1988 and made a strong impression, ultimately being invited back as the permanent guest conductor in 1991. That was just the beginning of a long string of prestigious operatic guest appearances at such houses as Covent Garden in London, the Opéra National de Paris, and the New National Theatre in Tokyo. His many symphonic appearances have included those with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Latham-Koenig has held principal conductor and music director posts with various orchestras in widely distributed cities around the world, beginning with the Orchestra of Porto (1989-1992), founding that group at the request of the Portuguese government. Beginning in 1997, he was simultaneously music director of the Opéra du Rhin and the Orchestre Philharmonique in Strasbourg in France. Latham-Koenig has served as the music director of Poland's Wrocław Philharmonic and Wratislavia Cantans Festival. He became the artistic director of Moscow's Novaya Opera in 2011, making him the first British director of a major Russian opera house. In the 2010s, he was also active as the music director of the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM in Mexico City, and the Flanders Symphony Orchestra in Bruges, Belgium. He founded the Britten Shostakovich Festival Orchestra in 2019. Latham-Koenig has been heard on recordings on the Chandos, Avie, and Capriccio labels, among others, in both operatic and symphonic repertory. On a 2020 Resonus Classics recording, he joined pianist Mark Bebbington and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for an album of piano-and-orchestra works by Poulenc.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
Shlomo Mintz, Roberto Prosseda, Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig
Classical - Released by Universal Music Italia srL. on 12 Jul 2019
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Britten: Violin Concerto & 4 Sea Interludes (Matthew Trusler)
Matthew Trusler, Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig, Seikyo Kim
Classical - Released by Orchid Classics on 19 Nov 2013
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Walton: Violin Concerto, Violin Sonata & Two Pieces for Violin and Orchestra
Jan Latham-Koenig, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lydia Mordkovitch
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Jun 1992
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Francis Poulenc: Piano Concerto & Concert Champêtre
Mark Bebbington, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig
Concertos - Released by Resonus Classics on 3 Mar 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Walton: Viola Concerto, Sonata for String Orchestra & Hindemith Variations
Jan Latham-Koenig, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nobuko Imai
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1 Nov 1992
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Poulenc: Aubade, Le Bal masqué, Flute Sonata & Sextet
Mark Bebbington, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig
Classical - Released by Resonus Classics on 30 Apr 2021
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Grieg & Delius: Piano Concertos
Mark Bebbington, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Irene Loh, Jan Latham-Koenig
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on 30 Mar 2018
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Nørgård: Symphony No. 3 & Twilight (Live)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Hedwig Rummel, Tom Nybye, Tamas Veto, Danmarks Radios Kammerkor, Jan Latham-Koenig
Classical - Released by Dacapo on 30 Apr 1992
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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suites Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Siesta, Sinfonia Concertante, Portsmouth Point - Arnold: Popular Birthday
Bryden Thomson, Jan Latham-Koenig, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eric Parkin
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1 Mar 1993
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Leoncavallo, R.: Boheme (La) [Opera]
Classical - Released by Nuova Era Internazionale on 31 Jan 1995
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Koechlin: Musique de chambre
Raimund Lissy, Jan Latham-Koenig
Chamber Music - Released by VMS Musical Treasures on 1 Apr 2009
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Strauss: Don Juan · Metamorphosen · Songs for Soprano & Piano
Jan Latham-Koenig, Joan Rodgers, Orchestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg
Classical - Released by AVIE Records on 10 May 2011
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Rosing-Schow: Echoes of Fire
Anna Klett, Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, Jan Latham-Koenig
Chamber Music - Released by Dacapo on 22 Apr 1997
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Hrvatski Skladatelji: Josipović, Bjelinski, Pejačević
Jan Latham-Koenig, Marija Vidovic, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Croatia Records on 25 Oct 2022
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Concerto pour violon - Sonate pour violon & orchestre
Lydia Mordkovitch, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig
Violin Concertos - Released by Chandos on 1 Jun 1992
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
Shlomo Mintz, Roberto Prosseda, Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig
Classical - Released by Universal Music Italia srL. on 12 Jul 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo