Dominic Grier is rapidly becoming acknowledged as a young conductor of exceptional talent, whose emerging career already embraces opera, ballet and symphonic work as well as contemporary music and orchestral training.  He was a permanent staff conductor at the Royal Opera House from 2008-10, where his work included guest and cover conducting with The Royal Ballet and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, and an affiliation with the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme.  He has since served as a regular guest conductor with most of the UK's major ballet companies, including Northern Ballet, Scottish Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet, as well as returning to The Royal Ballet frequently.  He is also Music Director of the Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra.

He made his Royal Opera House conducting debut with Walton’s Façade in October 2008 and his début with The Royal Ballet in Sir Kenneth Macmillan’s Concerto in March 2010 – recently released on DVD on the Opus Arte label.  He made a critically-acclaimed guest conducting début at the Opéra National de Lyon in March 2010 with the French premiere of Copland’s The Tender Land, and had formerly worked as an Assistant Conductor there, where his repertoire included Siegfried (2007), Porgy and Bess (2008 and 2010) and Death in Venice (2009). He has also served as Music Dbirector of the Ashover Festival Orchestra (2007-9) and of the King's College London Symphony Orchestra (2009-12), Principal Conductor of the London International Orchestra of Academia (2006-8) and Assistant Conductor for British Youth Opera (2007).  He is increasingly active as a teacher of conducting, and was Professor of Undergraduate Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music from 2009-11. He served as Music Director of his own Manfred Ensemble – a chamber orchestra specialising in historically-informed performances of nineteenth-century music – from 2000-2006. 

Dominic read music at the University of Cambridge and went on to study conducting at the Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Colin Metters, Sir Colin Davis, George Hurst and Mark Shanahan.  He graduated with distinction and was awarded the prestigious DipRAM for outstanding final performances and the Fred Southall Memorial Prize.  He was a major prizewinner in the 2006 Alliance Cornhill Conducting Competition.

Recent work has included performances with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, the Orchestre de Limoges et du Limousin, the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, the Tokyo City Philharmonic, the Orquestra do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro and the Salomon Orchestra.  Future engagements include The Nutcracker and Beauty and the Beast  for Birmingham Royal Ballet, Cinderella for Northern Ballet andOnegin for both Koninklijk Ballet Vlaanderen and The Royal Ballet.

Dominic Grier is represented by Athole Still