‘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 Simon Rattle and Sir András Schiff highlighted below follow in the footsteps of Bernard Haitink and Nikolaus and Alice Harnoncourt.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
Sir András Schiff, Pianist
Bernard Haitink †, Conductor
Nikolaus Harnoncourt †, Conductor
Conductors
Over the years, the COE has been fortunate to have important and particularly close relationships with the following conductors:
Claudio Abbado, Conductor †
Paavo Berglund, Conductor †
Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor
Robin Ticciati, Conductor
- ConductorsRobert AbbadoDavid AfkhamThomas AdèsVladimir AshkenazyGeorge BenjaminHerbert BlomstedtDouglas BoydSemyon BychkovKarina CanellakisConstantinos CarydisMyung Whun ChungNicholas CollonJames ConlonTeodor CurrentzisThomas DausgaardAndrew DavisRichard EgarrMaxim EmelyanychevPeter EötvösChristoph EschenbachAdam FischerIvan FischerThierry FischerClaus Peter FlorLawrence FosterSir John 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 PappanoRafael PayareMurray PerahiaLibor PesekTrevor PinnockMatthias PintscherJean-Bernard PommierJulian RachlinSir Simon Rattle*Gennadi RozhdestvenskyJukka-Pekka SarasteSir András Schiff*Anu TaliRobin TicciatiMichael Tilson-ThomasValentin UryupinOsmo VänskäEdo de WaartRyan WigglesworthThomas ZehetmairJaap 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 †Msistlav Rostropovich †Heinrich Schiff †Alexander Schneider †Oscar Shumsky †Sir Georg Solti †Sandor Vegh †
Soloists
The COE has developed particularly close relationships with a number of eminent soloists and directors over the years including:
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Pianist
Emanuel Ax, Pianist
Lisa Batiashvili, Violinist
Joshua Bell, Violinist
Renaud Capuçon, Violinist
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano
Isabelle Faust, Violinist
Janine Jansen, Violinist
Patricia Kopatchinskaya, Violinist
Magdalena Kožená, Mezzo-Soprano
- SoloistsPierre-Laurent AimardSalvatore AccardoLouise AlderPiotr AnderszewskiLeif Ove AndsnesMartha ArgerichYulianna AvdeevaEmanuel AxOlaf BärIddo Bar-ShaiCecilia BartoliYuri BashmetLisa BatiashviliKathleen BattleDaniel BehleJoshua BellRoberto BenigniKristian BezuidenhoutStephen Bishop-KovacevichKolja BlacherBarbara BonneyFlorian BöschIan BostridgeFrank BraleyKlaus Maria BrandauerGuy BraunsteinMichelle BreedtYefim BronfmanAngela BrowerBruno CaninoGautier CapuçonRenaud CapuçonKaren CargillGianluca CascioliBertrand ChamayouSeong-Jin ChoAllan ClaytonLucy CroweIldebrando 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 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 and Marielle LabèqueFrançois LeleuxJonathan LemaluPeter LikaJohn LillMarjana LipovsekJan LisieckiAlexander LonquichLouis LortieMischa MaiskyCharlotte MargionoAnthony MarwoodSally MatthewsKarita MattilaWaltraud MeierSabine MeyerShlomo MinzJohannes MoserRegula MühlemannDaniel Müller-SchottHanno Müller-BrachmannViktoria MullovaAnne-Sophie MutterLuba OrgonasovaAlice-Sara OttCécile OussetEmmanuel PahudMurray PerahiaMiklós PerényiMiah PerssonMichele PertusiFrancesco PiemontesiMaria Joao PiresLuca PisaroniAdam PlachetkaMikhail PletnevAlina PogotskinaJean-Bernard PommierAnna ProhaskaThomas QuasthoffJean-Guihen QueyrasJulian RachlinRuggero RaimondiSamuel RameyBeatrice RanaMarina RebekaKatia RicciarelliAnna Lucia RichterMatti SalminenSir András Schiff*Golda SchulzFranz-Josef SeligValeriy SokolovToby SpenceJean-Louis SteuermanTamara StefanovichBarbara SukovaAkiko SuwanaiAntoine TamestitDame Kiri Te KanawaSir Bryn TerfelChristian TetzlaffJean-Yves ThibaudetNobuyuki TsujiiMitsuko UchidaVioletta UrmanaOsmo VänskäDénes VárjonRolando VillazonStefan VladarElizabeth von MagnusAnne-Sofie von OtterFrederika von StadeYuja WangAlisa WeilersteinEva-Maria WestbroekCaroline 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 †