Justin Doyle

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.

With the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin Doyle has initiated an annual cycle of major new commissions, focused on the works of Händel with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and expanded the choir's repertoire into the polyphonic music of the Renaissance. Recent recordings have included a cappella music from the Spanish Renaissance and Benjamin Britten, further discs in the choir’s series of Händel and Haydn, and works by Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Doyle regularly works with ensembles like Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, MDR Radio Choir, Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Chorwerk Ruhr, Genesis Sixteen and orchestras including the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz, Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Kammerakademie Potsdam. Equally at home in the opera house, recent engagements have included productions for Garsington Opera, Buxton International Festival, Opera North, and the Winteroper at Sanssouci Park, Potsdam.

Doyle has a great interest in music from non-European cultures, bringing traditional music from all over the world to new audiences. Actively involved with musical education, performances of his cantata Myths and Legends in the UK and Germany have introduced thousands of schoolchildren to Scandinavian folksongs and the music of Wagner. He was Professor for Choral Conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin from 2018 to 2022, and Visiting Professor for Choral Conducting and for Early Music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 2019 to 2024.