In the past few seasons Robin O’Neill has conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (with whom he gave the orchestra’s first performance in the newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall), London Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Nordic Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa Japan and the Orchestras of the Guildhall School of Music, Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, where he is professor of conducting. This season he will make his debuts with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra.
Robin O’Neill regularly broadcasts on the BBC and has also had concerts broadcast on Swedish Radio and the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. He has made two CDs with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra on the Hyperion Label.
Robin O’Neill is music director of the music theatre ensemble “The Motion Group”. In 2005 together with theatre director Andrew Steggall he travelled to Baghdad, Iraq, and used their experiences to stage, with the support of Kevin Spacey, Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale at the Old Vic Theatre in London. This production used both Iraqi and European actors and musicians in what was by common consent one of the most shocking and thought provoking theatre events of 2006.
As conductor of Orchestra Citta Aperta Robin O’Neill has recorded and performed music by Carlo Crivelli as well as working as music director for the sound track of the 2006 Berlin Film Festival award winning “Little Red Flowers” by Zhang Yuan”.
Robin O’Neill will be the conducting teacher at this year’s Umbria International Summer Music Academy in Assisi. He will be working alongside professors from the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony, French National Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Salzburg Camerata.

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