Yannick Nézet-Séguin

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Principal Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as of August 2008. Born in Montreal in 1975, Yannick Nézet-Séguin began piano lessons at the age of five. He later entered the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, studying piano, composition, chamber music, and conducting. While attending the Conservatoire, Yannick Nézet-Séguin also studied choral conducting at Westminster Choir College in Princeton , New Jersey and, in 1995, founded the vocal and instrumental ensemble La Chapelle de Montréal. He continued his training near a number of famous conductors, among them the great Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini.

In April 2000, he was appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal. He has also appeared as guest conductor of L'Opéra de Montréal where, between 1998 and 2002, he was Chorus Master, Assistant Conductor and Musical Adviser. Productions he has conducted since 2000 include Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande and an acclaimed Turandot by Puccini, to open the 2004/2005 season. From September 2008 he will be Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Yannick Nézet-Séguin guested with numerous orchestras in Canada, and conducted performances of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles at Sarasota Opera in Florida.

2004–2005: first concerts in Europe and Australia
In November 2004 he made his European debut with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and has since conducted Flemish Radio Symphony; RSO Frankfurt; Monte Carlo Philharmonic; Luxembourg Philharmonic; and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. In August 2005, he made his Australian debuts stepping in at short notice for Lorin Maazel with Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The positive impact created by his first season's work outside North America is demonstrated by the fact that he was immediately re-invited by each of these seven orchestras.

2005–2006: Rotterdam debut
Symphonic conducting in 2005/2006 included return visits to Monte Carlo, Flemish Radio and three programs in Toulouse; plus debuts with Rotterdam Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Northern Sinfonia, City of Birmingham, SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Indianapolis Symphony and National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Opera conducting included Gounod's Faust at the Vancouver Opera and a fully-staged production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck with the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal.

2006–2007: International breakthrough
2006-2007 included a return visit to Rotterdam Philharmonic. He also made his debut with such orchestras as the Orchestre National de France in Paris, Staatskapelle Dresden and London Philharmonic Orchestra. He also made his first German tour with Sudwestrundfunk Sinfonieorchester. Further debuts he made with Canadian Opera of Toronto for nine performances of Gounod's Faust.

2007–2008: Preamble to a Rotterdam Music Directorship
In 2007/2008, the season before Yannick Nézet-Séguin will start as Music Director in Rotterdam, he conducts four programmes with his new orchestra:

• 8, 9, 10 and 11 November 2007: Strauss, Mahler and Beethovens Third Symphony ‘Eroica’
• 25 and 26 January 2008: Promenade Concert ‘Spanish Nights’
• 19, 20 and 21 March 2008: Bach's St Matthews Passion
• 13 and 14 June 2008: Ketting (The Arrival), Ravel and Sjostakovitsj’ Fifth Symphony

Following this last concert, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra will make a tour of Asia.

2008/2009: Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
As of August 2008 Yannick Nézet-Séguin is Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that Yannick Nézet-Séguin will take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor at the start of the Orchestra's 2008/09 season.

More information about Yannick Nézet-Séguin can be found on his website and on the website of his management Askonas Holt.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin website | Askonas Holt website

Movie: Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic

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