“Adrian Prabava is an extraordinary conductor, whose approach to the composer’s score enables every instrument to be heard and every musician to be given their proper value." (Jocelyne De Nicola, GB Opera)

In the 2025/2026 season, German-Indonesian conductor Adrian Prabava will return, among others, to the Orchestre National de Metz Grand-Est and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, with whom he will tour Japan and South Korea

After his great success at the 49th International Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon in 2005, Kurt Masur named him as his assistant at the Orchestre National de France in Paris from 2006 to 2009. He subsequently became the first beneficiary of the Bernard Haitink Fund for Young Talent in 2007. In this position he worked closely with Bernard Haitink as assistant conductor at the Het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam.

As an opera conductor he conducted a great number of repertoire during his term as Resident Conductor and Associate Music Director at the Theater Altenburg Gera and the Philharmonischen Orchester Altenburg Gera in Germany. For the production of Shostakovich’s operetta Moskva Cheremushki he received critical acclaim. Adrian Prabava also appeared at Komische Oper Berlin (Die Fledermaus; Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), Theater Bonn (Hänsel und Gretel) and Theater Magdeburg (The Turn of the Screw). More recently, Adrian Prabava conducted two major opera productions to great critical acclaim: Antonín Dvořak’s Rusalka at the Konzert Theater Bern and the revival of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin at Slovak National Theatre Bratislava. The production of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre, which he conducted with great success at the Opéra de Marseille in February 2022, was particularly well received by the press.

Adrian Prabava has previously collaborated with a wide range of renowned orchestras, including the Chamber Orchestra of Luxembourg, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Festival Strings Lucerne, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra (Osaka), London Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Norddeutschen Philharmonie Rostock, Odense Symfoniorkester, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, Royal Scottish National, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Sinfonieorchester Basel, State Symphony of Athens, Stavanger Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich and WDR Funkhausorchester.

He studied violin at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and conducting with Eiji Oue at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. In addition, Adrian Prabava also attended master classes with Jorma Panula, who became his mentor besides Kurt Masur and Bernard Haitink.