VINAY PARAMESWARAN

Internationally recognised for his energetic presence, imaginative programming, and compelling musicianship, Vinay Parameswaran is one of the most exciting and versatile young conductors on the podium today.

Recent and forthcoming highlights include UK debuts with the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia (London), BBC Symphony, and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, alongside US debuts with the Seattle Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, and Wintergreen Music Festival, as well as re-invitations with the Cleveland Orchestra, Symphony San Jose, Eugene Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and Nashville Symphony. Other recent guest engagements include the Phoenix Symphony, San Antonio Philharmonic, Knoxville Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Grant Park Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, and National Symphony Orchestra. In the 2026/27 season, Vinay makes his Canadian debut with the Victoria Symphony.

From 2017 to 2022, Parameswaran served as Assistant and later Associate Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, leading numerous concerts each season at Severance Hall, the Blossom Music Festival, and on tour. He was previously Associate Conductor of the Nashville Symphony, where over three seasons he conducted more than 150 performances, including a subscription debut in 2016/17 with works by Gabriella Smith, Grieg, and Prokofiev.

A strong advocate for music education, he has led school and family concerts with the Chicago Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Nashville Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra as well as projects and performances at leading conservatories including the San Francisco Conservatory, Curtis Institute of Music, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music. As Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (2017–2022), he directed an acclaimed four-city European tour that featured a performance at the Musikverein in Vienna.

Equally at home in the concert hall, opera house, and recording studio, Parameswaran has conducted productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Curtis Opera Theater. In Cleveland, he assisted Franz Welser-Möst on productions of Verdi’s Otello, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. His recordings include Two x Four with the Curtis Ensemble 20/21 and violinists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh, featuring works by Bach, David Ludwig, Philip Glass, and Anna Clyne, as well as digital concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra for its streaming platform.

Parameswaran was a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and has participated in masterclasses with David Zinman (National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa) and with Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier (Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music). In 2021, he received a Career Assistance Award from the Solti Foundation U.S.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he graduated with honours from Brown University with a BA in music and political science, studying conducting with Paul Phillips. He went on to earn an Artist Diploma in conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music as the Albert M. Greenfield Fellow, studying with renowned pedagogue Otto-Werner Mueller. He is currently based in Vancouver, BC.

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September 2026