Christopher Warren-Green
Conductor Laureate
British conductor Christopher Warren-Green is Principal Conductor and Music Director of the London Chamber Orchestra in the UK and Conductor Laureate of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina following a twelve-year tenure as Music Director. Warren-Green is Chair of the Foundation for Young Musicians, and in 2022, he celebrated a professional career spanning 50 years.
Warren-Green has conducted eminent orchestras around the world, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, Detroit, Houston, St. Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle, and Vancouver symphony orchestras, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. In the UK, Warren-Green has worked with Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and Royal Scottish National orchestras. In Europe, he has conducted Orchestre National de Belgique, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Orchestre National de Montpelier, Zürcher Kammerorchester, RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and in East Asia, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon, Singapore, Sapporo, and KBS symphony orchestras.
In addition to international commitments, Warren-Green has been honored to conduct regularly for the British Royal family at events including the wedding services of H.M. King Charles III and H.M. Queen Camilla, T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Warren-Green conducted the London Chamber Orchestra on the occasion of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 80th birthday and Philharmonia Orchestra for Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday concert at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as well as H.M. King Charles’s 60th birthday concert in Buckingham Palace and on other Royal occasions.
As a conductor, he has recorded extensively for Sony, Philips, Virgin, EMI, Chandos, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and records with the London Chamber Orchestra for Signum Classics.
As a soloist, he has recorded Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Vivaldi concertos and appeared as soloist extensively in Europe, most notably with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Berlin.
Warren-Green began his career at the age of seventeen, and at the age of twenty-one, was named Concertmaster of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, followed by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti. At age twenty-five, Warren-Green became concertmaster of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields under Sir Neville Marriner. He has served as a juror for many international competitions, including the Prague Spring Conducting, the Wieniawski Violin, and Hong Kong Piano competitions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, having been a professor there for eight years, and has appeared and presented numerous times on television and radio, most notably for the BBC Proms.
