Simone Young

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Simone Young AM (born March 2, 1961) is an Australian conductor, particularly well known for opera.

She studied composition and piano in her birth town Sydney and started her operatic career at the Sydney Opera House in 1985. In her early years she was assistant to James Conlon at the Cologne Opera, and to Daniel Barenboim in Berlin and Bayreuth. Since then, she has conducted at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra Bastille in Paris, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and at other important opera houses and with prestigious symphony orchestras worldwide. From 1999 until 2002, Simone Young was principal conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway, and from 2001 to 2003 she was chief conductor of Opera Australia in Sydney.

In 2005, Simone Young was appointed jointly general director of the Hamburg State Opera and chief conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg.

Ms. Young has received honorary doctorates of the Sydney and Melbourne universities and is Member of the Order of Australia as well as Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of France.

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