Background
Chichon was born in London in 1971 to parents from Gibraltar.
Chichon was born in London in 1971 to parents from Gibraltar.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna under Leopold Hager and later served as assistant conductor to Giuseppe Sinopoli and Valery Gergiev.
He is Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and is a frequent guest conductor for major European orchestras. In 2012 he was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to music and culture in Gibraltar. Since 2003 he has been a regular guest conductor with the English Chamber Orchestra and in 2004 he was invited by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to conduct concerts at their International Orchestra Institute in Salzburg and returned there in 2005 and 2006.
In December 2010, he made his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam for a set of four subscription concerts, stepping in for Antonio Pappano at short notice.
He is Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern since September 2011 and has also been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (2009-2012). His previous positions include Chief Conductor of the Graz Symphony Orchestra (2006-2009).