This Season, Alan Gilbert Takes NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra to New Heights in Fourth Season as Chief Conductor; Embarks on Second as Music Director of Royal Swedish Opera; and Returns to Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony & More After three seasons as Chief Conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Alan Gilbert has already begun to “put Hamburg on the map as a musical center and lead the orchestra into the first rank” (
