Domingo Hindoyan is the Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and former Principal Guest Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also Music Director Designate of the Los Angeles Opera, with the 2026/27 season being his first as Music Director.
During his first season in Liverpool, Hindoyan opened his tenure with a critically acclaimed conducting debut at the BBC Proms, after which he embarked upon various recording projects, the first of which was released in September 2022. He also collaborated with Liverpool’s well established ‘In Harmony’ educational programme and continued to demonstrate his commitment to new music with various world premieres and commissions during his second season. Hindoyan has released six albums with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. These include an album of Roberto Sierra’s music over the last 25 years and ‘Verismo’ exploring preludes and intermezzos from Italian operas. His recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony was released February 2024, followed by ‘Venezuela! Music from the Americas!’, released in October 2024. His most recent album of Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 & Souvenir de Florence, was released to critical acclaim in April 2025.
In season 25/26, Domingo will mark his fifth season as Chief Conductor with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with concert highlights including Mahler’s Ninth; the next instalment of his exploration of Bruckner’s symphonies, this time taking on the Sixth, and Dvorak’s opera ‘Rusalka’ in concert. In addition, Domingo returns to the Boston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, New World Symphony Miami, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Paris Opera whilst making his debut at the New York Philharmonic and Pittsburgh Symphony, and Zurich Opera.
Highlights of recent seasons included an acclaimed tour of Japan with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, in the USA concerts with the Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and in Europe with the BBC Symphony, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.
On the opera stage in recent seasons, he has led productions with Los Angeles Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Paris Opera, Opera National de Bordeaux, Chicago Lyric Opera, Liceu Opera Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, Opera du Rhin, Royal Swedish Opera, and Royal Opera House Muscat.
Hindoyan continues to enjoy a vibrant career leading acclaimed ensembles and orchestras around the world including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, New World Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestra National du Capitole de Toulouse and Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. He has also conducted concerts and operas at many renowned festivals, such as the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and as a regular guest at the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier.
Domingo Hindoyan was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He began his career as a violinist and member of the renowned Venezuelan musical education program El Sistema, and then was a member of Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. He later went on to study conducting in Europe at the Haute École de Musique de Genève with Professor Laurent Gay and was the first assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin between 2013 and 2016.
August 2025
