Nominated for Emerging Artist of the Year 2025 by the leading German magazine Opernwelt, he conducted at the Prague State Opera the Czech premiere of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, and Erwin Schulhoff’s Flammen (directed by Calixto Bieito. Rožeň’s repertoire at the Prague State Opera has also embraced Schoenberg’s Erwartung, Weill’s Die Sieben Todsünden, and Dvořák’s Rusalka. In Ostrava he took charge of the Czech premiere of Luigi Nono’s Prometeo. Tragedia dell’ascolto and conducted Smetana’s The Bartered Bride for Gothenburg Opera. He collaborated on a new production of Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová for Bergen National Opera. In January 2026, he conducted the world premiere of Ana Sokolović’s Clown(s) at the opera in Montréal, and in June 2026, Kurt Weill’s Der Zar lässt sich fotografieren and Carl Orff’s Die Kluge at the Frankfurt Opera.

In the 2025/26 season Rožeň conducts in the Czech Republic, Romania, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland and Germany. The Czech premiere of Friedrich Cerha’s epic orchestral cycle Spiegel, with the Hradec Králové Philharmonic, is followed by engagements with the Prague Philharmonia, and the Ostrava Center for New Music. At the start of the season he gives his debut at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest (Enescu’s Symphony No 2 with the Moldova Philharmonic Orchestra Iași), while February 2026 brings the world premiere, presented by Opera Montreal, of Clown(s) by the composer Ana Sokolović. After Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with the National Orchestra of Ireland, Rožeň finishes the season with a 20th century double bill at the Frankfurt Opera: Weill’s Der Zar läßt sich photographieren and Orff’s Die Kluge.

In the Czech Republic, Rožeň appeared with the Czech Philharmonic (with which he has recorded Richard Blackford’s Kalon for Signum Classics), Brno Philharmonic, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Prague Philharmonia and Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. As a proponent of Czech music, two of his signature works are Martinů’s Symphony No 6 (which he has conducted with the BBC Philharmonic, Hamburger Symphoniker, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Seattle
Symphony) and Miloslav Kabeláč’s Symphony No 4 (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Czech Philharmonic, Musikkollegium Winterthur, NOSPR Katowice, Prague Philharmonia, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra und Ulster Orchestra).

Rožeň’s substantial schedule has also taken him to the UK (Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Royal Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Scottish Chamber Orchestra), Germany (Bochumer Symphoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Staatsorchester Kassel), Slovakia (Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra), France (Orchestre National de Metz), the Netherlands (Philharmonie Zuidnederland), Belgium (Antwerp Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Flanders Symphony, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège), Scandinavian (Aalborg Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra), Spain (Orquesta Sinfónica de las Islas Baleares), the USA (Utah Symphony, Naples Philharmonic), Japan (Hiroshima Symphony) and China (Nanjing Forest Music Festival). Rožeň’s European festival appearances have included the Prague Spring Festival, Dvořák Prague Festival, Leoš Janáček International Music Festival and Janáček Brno Festival.

Among the soloists with whom Jiří Rožeň has collaborated are the singers Pavol Breslik, Lawrence Brownlee, Pavel Černoch, Victoria Khoroshunova, Kateřina Kněžíková, Ausrine Stundyte and the instrumentalists Mahan Esfahani, Kirill Gerstein, Vadim Gluzman, Andrei Ionita, Christian Schmitt, Josef Špaček, Lukáš Vondráček, Inmo Yang and the members of the Janoska Ensemble.

Born in 1991, Jiří Rožeň gained his formative experience as both an orchestral and operatic conductor after studies in Prague, Salzburg, Hamburg, Zurich and Glasgow (as Leverhulme Conducting Fellow at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). He went on to become a finalist at both the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award and the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, and to spend two years as Assistant Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, working closely with Donald Runnicles and Thomas Dausgaard during the season and at London’s BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival. He has been mentored by such figures as Garry Walker, Dennis Russell Davies, Ulrich Windfuhr and Johannes Schlaefli and, through masterclasses working under the guidance of leading conductors including Bernard Haitink, David Zinman, Daniele Gatti, Peter Eötvös and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.