Colin Metters has extensive experience in the concert hall and theatre, in the UK and across the world.  He has conducted across the world working with orchestras in Poland, Spain, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Turkey, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Zurich, South Korea, Germany and the Baltic States.

He has conducted many of the leading symphony orchestras in the UK including the BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Halle, Bournemouth Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony, Liverpool Philharmonic and the Philharmonia and the National Symphony Orchestra of  Ireland.

He also has considerable experience in the theatre, conducting opera galas and working with many leading dance and ballet companies. On leaving the RCM he was appointed Music Director to Ballet Rambert and went on to conduct  Australia Ballet at Sydney Opera House, Netherlands Dance Company, Cape Town Ballet, Ballet de Louvre, Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet at Covent Garden. He returned on three occasions to work with  New York City Ballet at the Lincoln Centre conducing Brahms/Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Bernstein.  Over the years he worked with such legendary dancers and choreographers as Rudolf Nureyev, Anthony Dowell, Antoinette Sibley, Maina Gielgud, Galina Samsova, Leonide Massine, Sir Peter Wright and Sir Robert Helpmann.