
Justin Doyle is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin since the season of 2017–18.
Born in 1975 in Lancaster, England, Doyle’s musical education began as a chorister at Westminster Cathedral and later as a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge. He won second prize in the prestigious Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition in 2006 in Barcelona and was awarded the inaugural Conductor Fellowship with the BBC Singers.
Doyle regularly works with ensembles like Swedish Radio Choir, MDR Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Kammarkör, Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Genesis Sixteen and orchestras including the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra , Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Kammerakademie Potsdam. He is also in demand as an opera conductor, especially for works by Mozart, Haydn and Britten, with productions in recent years for Garsington Opera, Buxton Festival and Orchestra of Opera North and for Winteroper at Sanssouci Park, Potsdam.
With the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin he has initiated an annual cycle of major new commissions, focused on the works of Handel with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and expanded the choir’s repertoire into the polyphonic music of the Renaissance. His programming with the choir ranges from works such as Heinrich Biber’s monumental Missa Salisburgensis to intimate settings of folk songs from around the world.
Doyle has a great interest in music from non-European cultures and is very much involved with musical education. He was Professor for Choral Conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin from 2018-2022, and Visiting Professor for Choral Conducting and for Early Music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 2019-2024.
Justin Doyle made his debut at the Zurich Sing-Akademie this season. Forthcoming engagements include reinvitations to conduct ensembles such as the Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Kammarkör and the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra.