Vimbayi Kaziboni

Jury member

• Conductor

Zimbabwean-born conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni is widely sought-after for his depth of approach, interpretive imagination, and expressivity, as well as his innovative and thoughtful curation. His recent collaborators include esteemed orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and notable ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, Ensemble intercontemporain, London Sinfonietta and Klangforum Wien, where he currently serves as conductor-in-residence. Kaziboni has led premieres of hundreds of new works across the globe by composers that include Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, Chaya Czernowin, and Heiner Goebbels, to name but a few. A prolific, multi-faceted artist, widely celebrated as “a conductor who clearly knows his way around an avant-garde score” (The Times, London), critics have hailed him among the foremost interpreters of modern classical music of his generation. Kaziboni was the recipient of the 2024 Ditson Conductor’s Award from Columbia University (New York) and serves as a professor of orchestral studies and contemporary music at Boston Conservatory at Berklee where he was 2019 Teacher of the Year.