JAIMEMARTÍN

Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2022, and Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 2019, Spanish conductor Jaime Martín will become Music Director Laureate of LACO from the 2027/28 season. He has also held the positions of Chief Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (2019–2024), Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España (Spanish National Orchestra) (2022–2024) and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Gävle Symphony Orchestra (2013–2022). In 2024, Martín became Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Among the highlights of recent seasons was Martín’s critically acclaimed conducting debut at the BBC Proms with BBC NOW. He also led the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in an 11-day Beethoven Festival, conducting all nine symphonies, and subsequently took the orchestra on a UK and European tour beginning at the Edinburgh International Festival and concluding at the BBC Proms, marking their first full international tour since 2019. The tour also included an appearance at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

The 2026/27 season sees Martín make his conducting debuts with the Minnesota and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, alongside appearances with the Dallas Symphony, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Orquesta de Valencia, Orquesta de Barcelona y Nacional de Catalunya, and JONDE (Joven Orquesta Nacional de España). He also returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra in March 2027 to conduct Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with guitarist Rafael Aguirre and Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía.

In recent years, Martín has conducted an impressive list of orchestras that includes the Dresden Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Essen Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. He has forged strong relationships with renowned soloists such as Anne-Sophie von Otter, Joshua Bell, Pinchas Zukerman, Christian Tetzlaff and Viktoria Mullova, among many others. Martín has also commissioned multiple world and regional premieres of works by composers including Ellen Reid, Andrew Norman, Missy Mazzoli, Derrick Spiva, Albert Schnelzer and Juan Pablo Contreras.

With Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s newly launched label, Martín’s recent releases include Debussy & Strauss (May 2024), featuring soprano Siobhan Stagg; Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (November 2024), marking the beginning of a new Dvořák symphony cycle; and Holst: The Planets – Deborah Cheetham Fraillon: Earth (May 2025). He is also recording a series for Ondine Records with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, including Brahms’ Serenades Nos. 1 & 2, Schicksalslied with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, and Brahms’ Piano Quartet arranged by Schoenberg, released in 2019. He has also recorded Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica, with Orquestra de Cadaqués, as well as several albums with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra for Tritó Records. In 2015, he recorded James Horner’s final symphonic work, Collage, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a flautist, Martín was principal flute of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, English National Opera, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and London Philharmonic Orchestra. Also sought-after as a soloist, he made a recording of Mozart’s flute concertos with Sir Neville Marriner, the premiere recording of Sinfonietta Concerto for Flute and Orchestra written for him by Xavier Montsalvatge and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, and Bach works for flute, violin and piano with Murray Perahia and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for Sony.

Martín is Artistic Advisor and previous Artistic Director of the Santander Festival. Over the last five years he has brought financial stability and created a platform for some of the most exciting artists in their fields, ranging from symphony orchestras and baroque ensembles to education workshops and ballet companies. He was also a founding member of the Orquestra de Cadaqués, with which he was associated for thirty years, and where he served as Chief Conductor from 2012 to 2019.

Jaime Martín is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music, London, where he was a flute professor. He now enjoys working with many of his former students in orchestras around the world.