At just 33 Daniel Harding is already a well established name on the concert circuit. This week he appeared at Bonn’s Beethoven Festival at the helm of the London Symphony Orchestra, in a programme of Beethoven and Bruckner. Born in Britain in 1975 Daniel Harding initially attended the University of Cambridge, but after his first year there, Claudio Abbado named him his assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Harding’s career had begun earlier when he assisted Sir Simon Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with whom he made his professional debut in 1994. He went on to assist Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic and made his debut with that orchestra at the 1996. In 2003, he became the first Music Director of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Previous positions include Principal Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony in Norway, Music Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and he is Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. It was with this ensemble Daniel Harding appeared at this year’s the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. In this week’s Inspired Minds , Daniel Harding talks to Breandáin O’Shea about the music of Beethoven and Bruckner and his passion to conduct. Interview: Breandáin O'Shea/Daniel Harding Less