JOSEPH SWENSEN
CONDUCTOR • COMPOSER
…following in the footsteps of great performers from Beethoven to Mahler Bernstein and the Beatles, JS is unique among today’s star conductors, he writes his own music!!!
Photo by Lukasz Rajchert
HONOURS & DISTINCTIONS
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres · 2026
Prix d’honneur de l’Académie de Bordeaux
SAGA Trilogy · b·records · 2026
Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
University of St Andrews, Scotland · 2000
Avery Fisher Career Award · 1982
Leventritt Foundation Sponsorship Award
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
“We are not quite in Furtwängler territory but heading that way.”
— Edward Seckerson, Gramophone UK
Joseph Swensen entraîne ses troupes sur une voie dominée par les figures tutélaires de Furtwängler, Karajan ou Böhm.”
— Erwan Gentric Diapason
“Swensen and his Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine capture the radicalism of the piece and, more importantly, its urgency.”
— Edward Seckerson
Photo by Frédéric Desmesure, courtesy of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine (ONBA)
CONTACT
Publishing & Licensing
BZU Artist Management & Publishing
Beatrix Zita Urbán, Publisher
