Also coming on board at the Baystaats: General Director Serge Dorny, who comes from the Opera de Lyon.
Current list of known openings:
- San Francisco Symphony! when MTT leaves at the end of 2019-20
- BBC Philharmonic when Juanjo Mena leaves at the end of 2017-18
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales when Thomas Søndergård leaves for his new job
- Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich when Lionel Bringuier leaves at the end of 2017-18
- Sarasota Orchestra after Anu Tali leaves at the end of 2018-2019
- Royal Opera, when Antonio Pappano leaves in 2020
- Opera de Paris, when Philippe Jordan leaves in 2020
- Orchestre de Paris, when Daniel Harding leaves at the end of 2018-19
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which Leonard Slatkin leaves at the close of the 2017-18 season.
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra (when Jaap van Zweden takes up his new post at the NYPO). Rumor heard that James Gaffigan is under consideration for this post.
- Milwaukee Symphony
- Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
- Dresden Philharmonic: 2019 departure for Michael Sanderling
- MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony: 2018 departure for Kristian Jarvi
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra: 2018 departure for Robin Ticciati
- Orchestre National de Lyon: open now, with Leonard Slatkin's departure
- Singapore Symphony: 2019 departure for Lan Shui
- Vienna RSO: 2018 departure for Cornelius Meister
- Toronto SO: 2018 departure for Peter Oundjian
- Winnipeg SO: 2018 departure for Alexander Mickelthwate
- Hamburg Symphony, following death of Sir Jeffrey Tate
- Washington National Opera, departure of Philippe Auguin at conclusion of 2017-18
- San Francisco Opera, departure of Nicola Luisotti at conclusion of 2017-18
- Opera North: open now, with Aleksandr Markovic's departure
- Opera Theatre of Saint Louis: 2017 is Stephen Lord's final season as MD
- Sydney Symphony Orchestra: David Robertson will be leaving the SSO at the end of 2019. So he really will be without an orchestral home as of 1/1/2020.
- Montreal Symphony Orchestra: Kent Nagano is leaving the OSM after 2019-2020.
Conductors looking for jobs (that is, as of the near future, or now, they do not have a posting):
- Lionel Bringuier
- Juanjo Mena
- Antonio Pappano
- Ludovic Morlot
- Sian Edwards
- Jun Markl
- Ingo Metzmacher
- Bramwell Tovey
- Jac van Steen
- Mark Wigglesworth
- Simone Young
- David Robertson
- Peter Oundjian as of the end of 2017-18
- Philippe Auguin
- Kwame Ryan
- Ilan Volkov
- Aleksandr Markovic
- Lothat Koenigs
- Henrik Nanasi
Kent Nagano- Leonard Slatkin (73 and done with being an MD)
And closed:
- Kent Nagano is now the Generalmusikdirektor of the Staatsoper in Hamburg
- Rafael Payare to San Diego Symphony
- Bayerische Staatsoper when Vladimir Jurowski joins in 2021.
- Clarinetist Martin Frøst becomes chief conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in 2019 when Thomas Dausgaard leaves for Seattle.
- Thomas Zehetmair is going to the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 2019
- Matthias Bamert is going to the Sapporo Symphony in 2018
- Lorenzo Viotti was named music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, as of 2018
- Joana Mallwitz appointed GMD in Nuremberg, effective 2018
- Philippe Jordan to the Vienna Staatsoper / VPO (Dominique Meyer not planning to appoint a WSO MD; his contract expires in 2020.)
- Semyon! Bychkov! fills the vacancy at the Czech Philharmonic, following the death of Jiří Bělohlávek
- Dennis Russell Davies becomes music director of the Brno Philharmonic, which had been open since 2015, as of the 2018-19 season.
- Nicola Luisotti becoming an assistant music director at the Teatro Real, Madrid, 2018.
- Seattle Symphony, where Thomas Dausgaard will succeed Ludovic Morlot; announced early October, 2016
- Vancouver Symphony; Otto Tausk comes on in 2018
- Orchestra Nationale de France; Emmanuel Krivine takes the post in 2017.
- NDR Elbphilharmonie: Alan Gilbert becomes MD (or chief conductor) in the 2019-20 season.
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Stéphane Denève to succeed David Robertson
- Hong Kong Philharmonic; Jaap van Zweden's contract extended through summer of 2022
- City of Birmingham SO; Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla appointed 2/4/2016, succeeding Andris Nelsons
- New York Philharmonic; Jaap Van Zweden appointed, 1/27/16, succeeding Alan Gilbert
- National Symphony Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda appointed, 1/4/2016, succeeding Christoph Eschenbach.
- Leipzig Gewandhaus: Andris Nelsons appointed, 9/9/2015
- LSO: Simon Rattle appointed, 3/2/2015
- Orchestra de Paris: Daniel Harding, 6/11/2015
- Berlin Philharmonic: Kirill Petrenko appointed, 6/22/2015
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Dausgaard succeeds Donald Runnicles in September, 2016
