Vimbayi Kaziboni

The Zimbabwe-born conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni has conducted leading orchestras in some of the world’s most renowned concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Southbank Centre in London, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Vienna Konzerthaus.

A particular focus of his work is contemporary music. He has conducted the world premieres of numerous compositions and collaborated with leading composers such as George Benjamin, Dai Fujikura, Heiner Goebbels, Georg Friedrich Haas, Helmut Lachenmann, George Lewis, Felipe Lara, Morten Lauridsen, Liza Lim, Olga Neuwirth, Matthias Pintscher, Augusta Read Thomas, Steve Reich, Rebecca Saunders and Jacob TV. He also maintains close ties with major contemporary music ensembles, such as the Ensemble Modern and Ensemble intercontemporain, and is artist in residence with the International Contemporary Ensemble and, since 2024, conductor in residence with Klangforum Wien.

In the 2024/25 season he has made his debuts with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and the New World Symphony, and returned to work with the BBC Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and Ensemble Modern. He also performs at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival.

Recently he has worked with the San Francisco Symphony, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève and the London Sinfonietta.

His artistic partners include Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Claire Chase, Juliet Fraser, Steven Schick and Tabea Zimmermann.

A former Fulbright Scholar, Vimbayi Kaziboni studied at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. He is artistic consultant to Boston Lyric Opera, musical director of the Composers Conference and teaches as a professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.