Simon Crawford-Phillips is the Västerås Sinfonietta's chief conductor and artistic advisor. He is also the artistic director of the Change Music Festival. He is both a conductor and pianist and works both within the large symphonic repertoire and in the intimate space of chamber music. He has collaborated with, among others, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Hallé Orchestra and St Martin-in-the-Fields as well as the NHK Symphony in Japan. Crawford-Phillips made his debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in 2023 as conductor of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the spring of 2026 he will return to conduct the revival of the successful ballet Gustavia.
