Canadian conductor Jordan de Souza received his appointment as General Music Director of Theater Dortmund and Chief Conductor of Dortmund Philharmoniker with a five-year contract commencing in August 2025.

Hailed by the New York Times as part of “the new generation leading Berlin’s classical music scene”, Canadian conductor Jordan de Souza recently conducted Die Zauberflöte at Bayerische Staatsoper Munich and Rigoletto for Houston Grand Opera and last season conducted Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas at the Chicago Lyric Opera, Don Giovanni at Opernhaus Zürich, Wagner Der fliegende Holländer at Nationaltheater Mannheim and La bohème at the 2022 Glyndebourne Festival. This season sees him conduct Carmen at Dutch National Opera, a new production of La Périchole at Theater an der Wien, Die Zauberflöte at Oper Köln and La bohème at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Jordan’s recent concert appearances have included Berlioz Symphonie fantastique with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, the world première of Simon Bertrand’s Weltengeist along with Shostakovich Symphony No. 9 with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and his BBC Proms debut
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.