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About Yannick

Music Director: The Metropolitan Opera Music Director: The Philadelphia Orchestra Artistic Director and Principal Conductor: Orchestre Métropolitain Honorary Member: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Honorary Conductor: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Montreal-born Yannick Nézet-Séguin was appointed as Music Director of The Metropolitan Opera, New York in 2018, adding this to his Music Directorship of the Philadelphia Orchestra (where he has served since 2012) and to the Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal), of which he has been Artistic Director and Principal Conductor since 2000. He joined Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Bernard Haitink to become the third-ever Honorary Member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in 2016-17. The end of his ten-year tenure with Rotterdam Philharmonic coincided with the orchestra’s centenary celebrations in its home city and culminated in an acclaimed European summer festivals tour in 2018.

Yannick has worked with many leading European ensembles and has enjoyed many close collaborations with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, as well as with London Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2008 to 2014. He has appeared several times at the BBC Proms and at many European festivals, among them Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg, Berlin and Grafenegg. North American summer appearances include New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Lanaudière, Vail and Saratoga. Once Chorus Master, Assistant Conductor and Music Adviser at Opéra de Montréal he has since conducted at the Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Netherlands Opera, Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival.

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Season Highlights

Aug 2024
Salzburg Festival
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major Op. 15 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Danil Trifonov (piano) Wiener Philharmoniker
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Metropolitan Opera, New York
Tesori: Grounded
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Metropolitan Opera, New York
Verdi: Aida

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  • Maestro; New York Philharmonic | David Geffen Hall

    • The New York Met’s musical director Yannick Nézet-Séguin serves as advisor, meaning not just an accuracy in the way Cooper conducts, and conducts himself, but also in the glorious way his music is used throughout.

    • The tour de force of the Mahler 2 in Ely Cathedral was well done, and Cooper’s performance as Bernstein was remarkable, coached by the New York Met’s musical director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. … I found ‘Maestro’ a refreshing novelty, a film about a world I have worked in for over 40 years and which I recognised clearly.

    • As Cooper’s conducting consultant, Nézet-Séguin was an indispensable part of the film’s success. He knows a thing or two about what goes into making a master.

    • His wild conducting style is passionate and highly energetic, and his seasonal programming jumps across all musical genres. it’s Nézet-Séguin’s guiding hand and spirited interpretation that gives Maestro its verity and lusty cinematic thrill. Along with conducting orchestras with his wild physicality of thrusting arms, exaggerated expressions and fleet, flying fingers, Nézet-Séguin is behind the recent resurgence of the Metropolitan Opera

    • the revolutionary artist whose intense conducting techniques are terrifically recreated by Cooper, aided by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, to bring the spirit of Bernstein back to life.

    • The orchestra performed the passage under the baton of both Cooper and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the movie’s conducting adviser, who worked with Cooper for several years, not only teaching him to conduct but to conduct convincingly as Lenny.

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