Dominic Grier’s career 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. Dominic has also served as Associate Guest Conductor with Northern Ballet and is currently a regular guest conductor for The Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the King's College London Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Conductor of the London Academy Premiere Sinfonia.

Dominic Grier’s career 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. He made his Royal Opera House conducting debut with Walton’s Façade  and his début with The Royal Ballet in Sir Kenneth Macmillan’s Concerto. 

Dominic has also served as Associate Guest Conductor with Northern Ballet and is currently a regular guest conductor for The Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the King's College London Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Conductor of the London Academy Premiere Sinfonia. He has served as Music Director of the London International Orchestra of Academia, the Manfred Ensemble and the Ashover Festival Orchestra and is also increasingly active as a teacher of conducting, having served as Tutor in Undergraduate Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music from 2009 to 2011.

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 Allianz Cornhill Conducting Competition.

He works regularly as Assistant Conductor at the Opéra National de Lyon where his repertoire has included Siegfried, Porgy and Bess and Death in Venice. He and made his guest conducting début there to critical acclaim with the French premiere of Copland’s The Tender Land in March 2010. He has also conducted The Magic Flute for Royal Academy Opera, Der fliegender Holländer for Cambridge University Opera Society, and Albert Herring for British Youth Opera.

Dominic has conducted repertoire sessions or rehearsals with the BBC Philharmonic, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Nash Ensemble and the Paragon Ensemble. He has also conducted the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera in concert at the ROH as well as serving as guest or rehearsal conductor for numerous London-based orchestras including the Salomon Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, Orpheus Sinfonia and Orchestra of the City. He is also Artistic Advisor to the London Fine Arts Orchestra.