Born in Oxford, Daniel Harding began his career assisting Sir Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with which he made his professional debut in 1994. He went on to assist Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic and made his debut with the orchestra at the 1996 Berlin Festival. In 2003 he became the first Music Director of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. His previous positions include Principal Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony in Norway (1997-2000), Principal Guest Conductor of Sweden's Norrköping Symphony (1997-2003) and Music Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (1997-2003). His appointment as Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra began at the start of the 2006/07 season, and as Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra from January 2007. He is a regular visitor to the Dresden Staatskapelle, which he conducted at the 2003 Salzburg Festival, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Orchestras. Other guest conducting engagements have included the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Oslo Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. In the United States and Canada he has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, Houston and Toronto Symphony Orchestras. Last season, he made his
