Hugh Tieppo-Brunt

“The furious panache of the LCO’s performance, expertly channelled by the conductor Hugh Brunt, was overwhelming”
The Times

co-Artistic Director & co-Principal Conductor: London Contemporary Orchestra

Hugh Tieppo-Brunt is co-Artistic Director and co-Principal Conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra, winners at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards.

He regularly works as a conductor/orchestrator with some of the leading and most innovative voices in film scoring, including Jonny Greenwood, Nicholas Britell, Mica Levi, Anthony Willis, Bryce Dessner, Isabella Summers, Thom Yorke, Matthew Herbert, Son Lux, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Rob Simonsen, Jerskin Fendrix and Volker Bertelmann.

As a guest conductor, he has appeared with, amongst others, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Metropole Orkest, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Orchestre National de Lyon, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz, BBC Concert Orchestra, Manchester Collective and San Francisco Symphony at venues and festivals including the Concertgebouw, Royal Festival Hall, Lincoln Center, BBC Proms, Barbican and Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Hugh Tieppo-Brunt © Matthew Johnson Photographer

A frequent collaborator of Jonny Greenwood, he has featured on his scores for The Master, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, You Were Never Really Here, Spencer and One Battle After Another. He has premiered numerous works by Greenwood and conducted the first live screening of the Academy Award-winning There Will Be Blood. In 2019 he conducted the world premiere of Greenwood’s violin concerto Horror vacui at the BBC Proms with soloist Daniel Pioro and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

“Under the excellent 32-year-old conductor Hugh Tieppo-Brunt, in his [New York] Philharmonic debut, Jonny Greenwood’s hauntingly strange and inventive score for ‘There Will Be Blood’ made the movie seem both stunningly new and an instant classic.” The New York Times

He conducted the string and choir arrangements on Radiohead’s album A Moon Shaped Pool and has collaborated extensively with Thom Yorke, conducting and orchestrating his film scores Suspiria and Confidenza, solo album Anima, and conducting the strings on The Smile’s A Light for Attracting Attention, Wall Of Eyes and Cutouts.

An advocate of new music and cross-genre collaborations, he has worked closely with a wide range of established and emerging composers and artists, including Philip Glass, Laufey, Actress (co-writing tracks on LAGEOS), Shiva Feshareki, Terry Riley, Gabriel Prokofiev, Julia Holter, Foals, Imogen Heap, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Justice, Hania Rani, Edmund Finnis and Bat For Lashes. In 2021 he collaborated with writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Stanley Donwood, composing the score for the audiobook Ness, published by Penguin.

He studied at New College, Oxford, where he held a choral scholarship, and at the Lucerne Festival Academy.

An excerpt of 'Horror Vacui' by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood (Proms 2019) © BBC Music

BBC 6 MUSIC FESTIVAL The Smile YOU KNOW ME © BBC 6

Horror Vacui - Jonny Greenwood - BBC Proms 2019 © s b

“Executed with searing intensity and perfect balance… Brunt’s ear is unerring.”

BBC Proms

“Transcendent… the score’s power and gravitas deepened under Brunt’s direction.”

The Telegraph

“The furious panache of the LCO’s performance, expertly channelled by the conductor Hugh Brunt, was overwhelming”

The Times

“On Tuesday night, we were offered his [Jonny Greenwood’s] latest piece, in a cleverly conceived and superbly executed Prom from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Proms Youth Ensemble, under the incisive and perfectly precise baton of Hugh Brunt.”

The Telegraph

“Hugh Brunt led impeccably prepared performances of Glass’s Bowie Symphonies: No 1 (Low) and No 4 (Heroes).”

The Times

“Under the excellent 32-year-old conductor Hugh Brunt, in his [New York] Philharmonic debut, Jonny Greenwood’s hauntingly strange and inventive score for ‘There Will Be Blood’ made the movie seem both stunningly new and an instant classic.”

The New York Times

“On the podium, conductor Hugh Brunt is polished, poised, and precise, neither intruding upon the movie, nor hiding away the labors required to produce music this complex.”

ZEALnyc

“Brunt delivered a punchy rendition of Xenakis’s Metastasis – a model of Modernist clarity, economy and directness – and a Ravelian account of Vivier’s Orion that was nothing short of ravishing.”

The Arts Desk

“Some people can’t see a mountain without wanting to climb it. The players of Hugh Brunt’s terrific London Contemporary Orchestra give me a similar impression: that they are game for any avant-garde musical challenge, the tougher and craggier the better… under Brunt’s immaculate direction, the entire ensemble was heroic.”

The Times