The Most Famous
CONDUCTORS from Switzerland
This page contains a list of the greatest Swiss Conductors. The pantheon dataset contains 128 Conductors, 1 of which were born in Switzerland. This makes Switzerland the birth place of the 24th most number of Conductors behind China, and Greece.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swiss Conductors of all time. This list of famous Swiss Conductors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Charles Dutoit (b. 1936)
With an HPI of 62.29, Charles Dutoit is the most famous Swiss Conductor. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Charles Édouard Dutoit is a Swiss conductor. He is the principal guest conductor for the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia. In 2017, he became the 103rd recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal Award. Dutoit held previous positions with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Tokyo NHK Symphony and the Orchestre National de France. As of 2017, he was conductor emeritus of the Verbier Music Festival Orchestra. He is an honorary member of the Ravel Foundation in France and the Stravinsky Foundation in Switzerland. In December 2017, following allegations of sexual assault, the Boston and San Francisco Symphonies cancelled his engagements. In a statement, Dutoit denied the charges.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Swiss conductors born between 1936 and 1936. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Swiss conductors include Charles Dutoit.
