Matthias Bamert’s distinguished career started at the Cleveland Orchestra where he was resident conductor with the then music director Lorin Maazel. Since then he has been music director of the Swiss Radio Orchestra and the London Mozart Players, principal guest conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and associate guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and he has recently finished a highly successful period as music director of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked frequently in the concert hall and studio with such orchestras as the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, has appeared regularly at the London Proms, and often appears with orchestras outside London such as the BBC Philharmonic and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Elsewhere he has regularly appeared with the great orchestras of the world including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Orchestre National de France, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, among many others. A prolific recording artist, Bamert has made over eighty discs, many of which have won international prizes.