BIOGRAPHY
Kerem Hasan is regarded as one of the most exciting young British conductors. Winning the prestigious Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award in the summer of 2017 laid the foundation for his flourishing international career.
From September 2019 to June 2023, he served as Chief Conductor of the Tiroler Symphonieorchester in Innsbruck.
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Beginning with the 2025/26 season, he takes up the position of Principal Guest Conductor with the Noord Nederlands Orkest.
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The 2025/26 season opens with a particular highlight: Hasan conducts a new production of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking at English National Opera, with a distinguished cast including Christine Rice, Dame Sarah Connolly and Michael Mayes. Further engagements this season include return invitations to the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, PHION Orkest and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. He also makes debuts with the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, and appears several times with the Noord Nederlands Orkest in his new role as Principal Guest Conductor.​
Among his
PERFORMANCES
PRESS
NEWS
Schumann's Manfred overture shows Kerem Hasan to be an extremely impulsive and precise orchestra leader. The little black-haired maestro brings the revolutionary attitude into play with the first storm chords. Hasan knows how to impressively fan the turbulent emotions and calm them down again.
- Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, Dietholf Zerweck, 29.01.2024
SWR Symfonieorchester
Guided lovingly by Kerem Hasan, the orchestra of Opera North sighs and swoons its way winningly through Puccini's score.
- The Guardian, Sarah Noble, 27.10.2023
Opera North - La Rondine
Kerem Hasan knew how to weave together all the richly ornamented arabesques of sound and evoke visual images that sparkled and shone in the sunlight but equally inhabited the spectral shadows. It was Hasan's very skilful balancing of individual instruments and sections which commanded attention throughout.
- Bachtrack, Alexander Hall, 05.05.2022
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
England's 30-year-old Kerem Hasan appeared to be the kind of clear communicator you want in any leadership position, emphasizing wide-ranging and oft-changing dynamics throughout the evening. And his graceful, balletic movement vocabulary was ideal for such transporting repertoire.
- Star Tribune, Rob Hubbard, 23.07.2022
Minnesota Orchestra
Stylish sparks fly with Kerem Hasan and the LSO -
in Hasan's hands it is low-fat and high flavour, creaminess offset with piquancy. He has a superb technique, combining rhythmic exactitude with an elegant and expressive legato that lets this shapely music intuit itself.
- Bachtrack, Benjamin Poore, 08.10.2020
London Symphony Orchestra
Hasan showed not only remarkable control and poise on the podium, his musical ideas brought Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 to vivid life... The performance was an edge-of-the-seat from beginning to end as the symphony musicians expertly followed Hasan's direction.
- Toronto Star, John Terauds, 11.04.2019
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
On the podium stood Kerem Hasan, and he conducted the orchestra as if he has been born to do so.
- Politiken, Thomas Michelsen, 24.11.2018
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
This 26-year-old takes Haitink's interpretation remarkably smoothly, albeit with less bitterness and less hopelessness. The musicians applauded, this is the guy they are going to keep an eye on.
- De Volkskrant, Guido van Oorschot, 10.06.2018
Concertgebouw Orchestra