Gregory Charette is a conductor and programmer deeply committed to the performance and promotion of new music. He is principal guest conductor of the Kosovo Philharmonic and regular guest conductor of Het Muziek (formerly Asko | Schönberg Ensemble). He served as conductor of Orkest de Ereprijs (NL) from 2021 thru 2025. Highlights of the 2026 season include a performance of Michael Gordon's Trance in the Lucerne Festival, the world premiere of the chamber version of Gerald Barry's Cello Concerto at Cello Biënnale Amsterdam with soloist Stefano Bruno and Het Muziek, the Kosovan premiere of Silvestre Revueltas' epic La noche de los mayas, and a performance of Jonathan Harvey's Bird Concerto with Pianosong with soloist Antoine Françoise and Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva. 

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Gregory earned his B.M. in composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Lewis Nielson and participated in master-classes with Helmut Lachenmann, David Lang, and Rebecca Saunders. He moved to The Netherlands to study orchestral conducting at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and earned his M.M. from the Dutch National Masters in Orchestral Conducting, a program that gave him the opportunity to work with various professional Dutch orchestras in master-classes, rehearsals, and performances. His primary teachers were Jac van Steen and Kenneth Montgomery. He studied with Pierre Boulez at the 2011 Luzern Festival and has served as conductor in the Holland Festival’s John Cage Centennial as well as the Aldeburgh Festival’s Emerging Composers Program, where he worked closely with Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews. 

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Engagements have included concerts with the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Residentie Orkest, RTSH Orchestra (Albania), Kosovo Philharmonic, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, Ensemble Contrechamps, Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble Proton Bern, Britten-Pears Ensemble and SONEMUS Ensemble (Bosnia). In 2013 he founded Oerknal, a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to reimagining and reinvigorating the concert experience. Gregory currently resides in Rotterdam. ​

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*Full CV and repertoire list available upon request.

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