British conductor Adam Hickox is praised repeatedly for his expressive and masterful interpretations and is in increasing demand across the world. Following a highly successful run of performances of L’elisir d’amore, Adam Hickox was appointed Principal Conductor of The Glyndebourne Sinfonia in December 2023, following a long line of distinguished predecessors. In November 2024, just a few months after making his debut with the orchestra, Hickox was announced as the new Chief Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, starting in 2025/26.

Equally at home in the opera and symphonic fields, his 2024/25 season includes debuts with Staatsoper Hamburg (Hänsel und Gretel), Dresdner Philharmonie, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Bournemouth Symphony orchestras, Orchestre National de Lille, Trondheim Symphony, a tour of Holland with Phion and his Asian debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He will also return to the Royal Philharmonic and the BBC Philharmonic, at the Glyndebourne autumn season 2024 he will conduct La Traviata and concert performances of Tippett A Child of our Time.

In previous seasons, he has conducted orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Philharmonia Orchestra and BBC Symphony, and acclaimed opera productions with Norwegian National Opera (Candide) and Opera North (Tosca).

Hickox studied music and composition with Robin Holloway at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, and conducting with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music. He was Assistant Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic from 2019-2022 working closely with Lahav Shani, and in 2021 he was invited to Tanglewood as one of the Festival's two Conducting Fellows.