Jordan honored with the Austrian Cross of Honor
The Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan has been awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, in Vienna.
With this award, the Republic is honoring a conductor whose artistic integrity, intellectual depth and human greatness have shaped musical life far beyond Austria and will continue to do so, according to the laudation. Jordan combines precision with deep musical feeling, human greatness with artistic passion in his work. In his work at the Vienna State Opera, at the Paris Opera and on the world's great stages, he embodies a rare balance of analytical clarity and deeply felt, organic music-making.
Jordan was chief conductor of the Graz Opera House from 2001 to 2004 and of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra from 2014 to 2020. From 2020 to June 2025, Philippe Jordan was Music Director of the Vienna State Opera. At the beginning of the 2027/28 season, he will take over the position of Music Director at the Orchestre National de France.
