of the l'Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (ONPL), based in Nantes and Angers, France. He assumed the title of Music Director Designé with the 2009–2010 season, and began his full duties as music director for the 2010–2011 season. In July 2009, Axelrod was appointed music director of the Hollywood in Vienna Gala Concert with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna. The first of his concert performances was on October 14, 2009, in the Konzerthaus of Vienna. From the 2011/12 season, he is the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi also known as "laVerdi". In November, 2014, Axelrod was elected Artistic and musical director of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville. In July, 2017, Axelrod was elected CEO (Consejero Delegado) in addition to his Artistic and musical director duties of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville. In January, 2020, Axelrod was elected Principal Guest Conductor of the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, in Japan. In August, 2022, Axelrod was elected Principal Conductor of the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, in Romania. Guest conductor Axelrod has conducted over 175 orchestras around the world, including many of the world's leading orchestras such as, in Europe: the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Israeli Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Hungarian National Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Polish National Radio Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in St. Petersburg, at Vienna's Musikverein and Konzerthaus with the Vienna Radio Symphony, Gürzenich Orchestra Köln, Berlin's Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre National de Lyon, Camerata Salzburg, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, and the Salzburg Mozarteum. In Asia: the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawaand City of Kyoto Symphony; and in North America: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Symphony. He has also been a regular guest of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Dresden Philharmonic,NDR Radiophilharmonie of Hanover, Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino, Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro la Fenice, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Lisbon's Gulbenkian Orchestra. In 2003, Axelrod premiered with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the Ravinia Festival the Samuel Pisar text for the Symphony 3 "Kaddish," by Leonard Bernstein.