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About Sasha

Bernard Haitink Conducting Fellow: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (2024-2026)

Conductor Sasha Scolnik-Brower has been praised for his “musical instinct, stylistic confidence, and precise craftsmanship” (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

He has recently completed his 2 year term as the inaugural Bernard Haitink Conducting Fellow of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which included conducting the Prizewinner’s Concert of the 2025 ARD Competition.

Alongside his work with the BRSO, Scolnik-Brower has recently made debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Belgian National Orchestra, Staatsoper Hamburg (Die Fledermaus), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, National Symphony Orchestra (USA), and the Residentie Orkest in collaboration with the Dutch National Opera Academy (Il ritorno d’Ulisse).

Highlights of the 2026-2027 season include debuts with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Noord Nederlands Orkest, and Deutsche Philharmonie Merck and a return to the London Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and Luxembourg Philharmonic.

Other notable performances include Rossini’s La scala di seta at the Bredeweg Festival in Amsterdam; a collaboration with Jennifer Koh and students of The Juilliard School at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; Pierrot Lunaire at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York City; and a tour with the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 6.

Sasha is based in Amsterdam

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Season Highlights

Sep 2025
Herkulessaal, Munich
ARD COMPETITION: Prizewinners’ Concert Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Nov 2025
Barbican, London
LSO DISCOVERY SERIES Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique et al. Animateur: Rachel Leach London Symphony Orchestra
Mar 2026
Philharmonie Luxembourg
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Director: Anisha Bondy Luxembourg Philharmonic
May 2026
Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris
Mozart and Rossini Léa Desandre, mezzo-soprano Huw Montahue Rendall, baritone Belgian National Orchestra

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  • Sasha Scolnik-Brower conducts Belgian National Opera

    Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
    May 2026

    • At the head of a Belgian National Orchestra in good shape, Sasha Scolnik-Brower adopts an energetic and precise direction with alert tempi that a baroque conductor would not deny. Always concerned about his performers, the young American conductor also excels in orchestral works, as evidenced by the subtle overture to The Barber and the spectacular storm scene.

    • Under the direction of young yet strikingly mature conductor Sasha Scolnik-Brower, the evening immediately gained momentum, elegance, and tension. From the very first measures, you could feel it: here stood an orchestra in top form. Scolnik-Brower led the BNO with effortless authority and a keen sense of style. He constantly energized the orchestra, but did so without heavyhandedness or showiness. In both Mozart overtures – Le nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte – he kept the music nimble, taut, and transparent, precisely as it should sound. No plodding symphonic weight, but rather tension, elegance, and theatrical pulse. The strings played with sharp articulation, the woodwinds colored with finesse, while the conductor continuously maintained breath and fluidity in the music. In Rossini, his stylistic sensibility came through even more forcefully. Immediately in the sparkling overture to The Barber of Seville Scolnik-Brower demonstrated his mastery of this repertoire: rhythmically alert, brimming with energy, yet always controlled and refined. In the colorful Thunderstorm as well, he built the tension meticulously.

  • ARD Prizewinners Concert

    Munich
    Sep 2025

    • The young conductor does this with the utmost discretion, even if that's hardly the right word for his musical instinct, his stylistic confidence, and his precise craftsmanship

  • BRSO Academy Anniversary Concert

    Munich
    Sep 2025

    • Here, under the direction of the young Sasha Scolnik-Brower, Bernard Haitink Conducting Fellow at the BRSO since 2024/25, who recently conducted the orchestra with great success at the ARD Music Competition, the task was also to master a multitude of solo tasks with charm and a sense for chamber music texture, rhythmic conciseness and the tonal balance between strings, woodwind and brass, which was achieved without exception