{"id":334280,"date":"2026-05-27T11:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:13:16","slug":"who-is-replacing-gustavo-dudamel-la-phil-names-next-music-director-after-much-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334280\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is replacing Gustavo Dudamel? LA Phil names next music director\u00a0after much speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is replacing Gustavo Dudamel? LA Phil names next music director after much speculation<\/p>\n

Conductor Daniel Harding will take over as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director next year, the organization announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Conductor Daniel Harding will take over as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director next year, the organization announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The appointment follows three years of intense speculation about who would succeed Gustavo Dudamel to oversee the influential orchestra, including concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, The Ford and with Youth Orchestra Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

Harding\u2019s tenure starts in the 2027-28 L.A. Phil season. The Oxford-born conductor is currently music director of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Italy and is well-known in L.A. as a guest conductor. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u200aDaniel is a musician favorite during his last couple of times here during that Hollywood Bowl,\u201d Kim Noltemy, L.A. Phil president and CEO, told LAist\u2019s AirTalk Tuesday. \u201c\u200aHe’s a brilliant musician. He is absolutely committed to the idea of music education and helping develop the audiences of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Harding said in a statement Tuesday that making music with LA Phil musicians is a thrill and inspiration. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo many great artists have found possibilities here that don\u2019t exist anywhere else, and I come to California full of excitement for what we will discover and create together,\u201d Harding said.<\/p>\n

Harding will be the creative lead behind a team of acclaimed musicians, according to the L.A. Phil.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is gonna be the ultimate dream team,\u201d Noltemy told AirTalk.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

Esa-Pekka Salonen introduces Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, then 26, back in 2007 as his successor. <\/p>\n

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Al Seib<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n

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That includes Dudamel, who has led the orchestra since 2009 and will make his debut as the director of the New York Philharmonic this year. He was appointed last week as LA Phil\u2019s artistic and cultural laureate.<\/p>\n

It also includes LA Phil creative director Esa-Pekka Salonen, who was the Phil’s music director for 17 years between 1992 and 2009, conductor-in-residence Anna Handler, creative chair John Adams and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are taking a non-traditional approach to all of the artistic strategy \u2014 essentially by having a team of brilliant people working together to create a season that really inspires people and meets various audiences where they are,\u201d Noltemy said. <\/p>\n

Harding will conduct eight weeks of programming in his inaugural 2027-28 season, according to the LA Phil. That will increase to 12 weeks of programming in the seasons to follow.<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview<\/p>\n

After 3 years of intense speculation, the LA Phil announces successor to Gustavo Dudamel <\/p>\n

Guests: Kim Noltemy, LA Philharmonic President and CEO, and Mark Swed, L.A. Times classical music critic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is replacing Gustavo Dudamel? LA Phil names next music director after much speculation Conductor Daniel Harding will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[137862,8122,21713,135069,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-334280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-daniel-harding","tag-hollywood-bowl","tag-l-a-phil","tag-l-a-philharmonic","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}