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Equally at home in the opera and symphonic fields, his 2024/25 season includes debuts with Staatsoper Hamburg (Hänsel und Gretel), Dresdner Philharmonie, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Bournemouth Symphony orchestras, Orchestre National de Lille, Trondheim Symphony, a tour of Holland with Phion and his Asian debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He will also return to the Royal Philharmonic and the BBC Philharmonic, at the Glyndebourne autumn season 2024 he will conduct La Traviata and concert performances of Tippett A Child of our Time.
In previous seasons, he has conducted orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Philharmonia Orchestra and BBC Symphony, and acclaimed opera productions with Norwegian National Opera (Candide) and Opera North (Tosca).
Hickox studied music and composition with Robin Holloway at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, and conducting with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music. He was Assistant Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic from 2019-2022 working closely with Lahav Shani, and in 2021 he was invited to Tanglewood as one of the Festival's two Conducting Fellows.
2024/25 season, 239 words. Not to be altered without permission.