Artistic Leadership
The LA Phil’s artistic vision and direction is driven by a collaborative team of creative leaders, including innovators from the worlds of jazz, classical, baroque, contemporary music, and more.
Daniel Harding
Walt and Lilly Disney Chair
Daniel Harding joins the LA Phil as its Music Director starting in the 2027/28 season, spearheading the LA Phil’s evolving artistic leadership team. Acclaimed for his artistic leadership and craftsmanship, Harding’s repertoire is wide-ranging, from award-winning recordings of Baroque music to countless premieres of new works.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Creative Director, Conductor Laureate
After serving as Music Director since 1992, Esa-Pekka Salonen was named Conductor Laureate of the LA Phil in 2009. A renowned composer, he combines intricacy and technical virtuosity with playful rhythmic and melodic innovations, marking him as one of the most important artists in classical music today. As of the 2026/27 season, he holds the LA Phil’s first-ever Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Creative Director position.
Gustavo Dudamel
Diane and M. David Paul Artistic and Cultural Laureate of the LA Phil, Jane and Michael Eisner Founding Director and Conductor Laureate of YOLA
After serving 17 years as Music & Artistic Director, Gustavo Dudamel continues a meaningful presence with the LA Phil, performing with the orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall, bringing his singular energy and leadership to his deeply cherished educational initiative YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), and curating an annual genre-less festival at the Hollywood Bowl that blends orchestral music with artists and traditions from around the world.
Anna Handler
Ellen and Arnold Zetcher Conductor-in-Residence
Beginning in the 2026/27 season, Anna Handler takes on the new role of Conductor-in-Residence at the LA Phil. A rapidly ascending presence on the international stage, Handler was a member of the 2023/24 class of Dudamel Fellows and has since been named Chief Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra, where she begins her tenure in 2026/27, and Artist-in-Residence at Beethoven-Haus Bonn during its 2026/27 season.
John Adams
John y Samantha Williams Presidente Creativo
John Adams, uno de los compositores más admirados y respetados de América del Norte y ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Música del 2003, es el presidente creativo LA Phil. En los últimos 25 años, su música ha jugado un papel decisivo en la formación de la música contemporánea, y sus composiciones se han interpretado por las grandes orquestas alrededor del mundo.
50º Aniversario de
Director creativo de Jazz
Herbie Hancock is an icon of modern music. Over his illustrious five-decade career, he has won 14 Grammy awards, and his spirit helped to define both post-war jazz and hip-hop. Few artists have had greater influence on acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B.
Thomas Wilkins
Director Titular de la Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Thomas Wilkins es Director director de orquesta de la Orquesta Hollywood Bowl . Ha ocupado un puesto de titular en la Hollywood Bowl desde el 2008, cuando fue nombrado Principal Invitado director de orquesta; en la primavera del 2014, pasó a ser Principal director de orquesta.
Joe Hisaishi
Composer-in-Residence
The internationally acclaimed composer and conductor Joe Hisaishi will serve as LA Phil Composer-in-Residence for the Hollywood Bowl and The Ford, beginning in 2027/28 season. This multifaceted artistic partnership between Hisaishi and the LA Phil encompasses performances across our venues, new commissions, recording projects, and educational and community engagement initiatives developed in collaboration with the Joe Hisaishi Foundation.
Emmanuelle Haïm
Artista colaborador
Emmanuelle Haïm is highly acclaimed as a performer and champion of the Baroque repertoire, both as a keyboard player and conductor. Her tenure with the LA Phil will explore the complex beauty and evocative sophistication of the Baroque era with an annual residency by Le Concert d’Astrée, performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and additional concerts and events.
Zubin Mehta
director de orquesta Emérito
Zubin Mehta—the LA Phil’s Music Director from 1962 to 1978 and current Conductor Emeritus—has conducted the world’s most esteemed orchestras and introduced generations to classical music through more than 50 years of recordings and performances. Through his humanitarian work, he has also given us a model of music’s ability to bridge cultures and bring people together in healing and in harmony.
The Artists Who Shape Our Sound
Explore additional artists who define the Hollywood Bowl—through long-standing collaborations, bold new voices, and the creative partnerships that bring our stages to life.
Experience our collaborators live
Daniel Harding Leads Bernstein & Brahms
Soon-to-be Music Director Daniel Harding leads Brahms’ concerto of refined beauty and more.
Simply Beethoven Festival
“Eroica” and Piano Concerto No. 1 with Dudamel
Dudamel leads Beethoven’s revolutionary symphony, and Buchbinder embarks on a concerto cycle.
Simply Beethoven Festival
“Eroica” and Piano Concerto No. 2 with Dudamel
Dudamel conducts Beethoven’s “heroic” symphony, and Beethoven’s earliest piano concerto takes flight.
Simply Beethoven Festival
“Eroica” and Piano Concerto No. 3 with Dudamel
Two of Beethoven’s leading interpreters capture the composer on the precipice of greatness.
Simply Beethoven Festival
Dudamel Conducts the Fifth Symphony and Piano Concerto No. 4
A pair of iconic works performed by two of today’s foremost champions of Beethoven.
Handel’s Messiah with Le Concert d’Astrée
Colburn Visiting Orchestras
LA Phil Artist Collaborator Emmanuelle Haïm leads this nearly 300-year-old holiday favorite, featuring the iconic “Hallelujah” chorus.
Celebrando la Navidad con Le Concert d’Astrée
Early music expert Emmanuelle Haïm leads seasonal gems with one of the foremost ensembles in the field of historically informed performance practice.
Mitsuko Uchida y Esa-Pekka Salonen
Berlioz’s opium-fueled, love-obsessed fantasy meets Ravel’s jazz-inflected piano concerto.
Rituals Festival
A Day in the Life
Nuevas series musicales de Green Umbrella
Acclaimed director Yuval Sharon and Salonen investigate the rituals and rhythms of our daily existence.
Salonen dirige a Smith y Sibelius
Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a celebration of birthdays and birdsong featuring Finnish music and a premiere by Gabriella Smith.
Rituals Festival
One Morning Turns Into an Eternity with Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen and theater director Peter Sellars lead an emotional journey from grief to transcendence with operatic Schoenberg and Mahler works.
Rituals Festival
Requiem
Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Mozart and Ligeti
Esa-Pekka Salonen pairs two requiems: Mozart’s final musical expression of mortality and Ligeti’s mesmerizingly thick and cloudlike Mass of the Dead, memorably included in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Minimalist Icons Festival
Anna Handler Conducts Philip Glass
Striking, powerful works that showcase the breadth of Glass’ abilities.
All-Beethoven with Anna Handler
Música de cámara con miembros de la Filarmónica de Los Ángeles
Our Conductor-in-Residence teams up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new concertmaster for the fierce and challenging “Kreutzer” Sonata.
John Adams/Líneas rítmicas
Nuevas series musicales de Green Umbrella
A rhythmically driven journey from postwar iconoclasm to today’s genre-dissolving innovation.
Minimalist Icons Festival
John Adams
A spotlight on music from the operas of the LA Phil’s Creative Chair.
Rituals Festival
The Rite of Spring with Salonen
One of music’s most iconic ritualistic expressions meets Prokofiev’s “melody of the highest beauty” (Bachtrack).
John Williams y Mahler con Anna Handler
Anna Handler takes on the “Titan” Symphony, and beloved pianist Emanuel Ax summons John Williams’ favorite “ghosts of jazz past.”