Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor

Biography

Born in Montreal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York since September 2018. He is also Artistic and Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal) since 2000 and Honorary Member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

After ten years at the helm of the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, he remains its Honorary Conductor. He has worked with several prestigious European orchestras, such as the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the London Philharmonic, where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2008 to 2014. He is a regular guest at the BBC Proms and major European festivals (Baden-Baden, Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, etc.).

In North America, accompanied by his orchestras, he frequently returns to Carnegie Hall and to Lanaudière, Vail and Saratoga Festivals. He contributes to the training of the next generation through his Young Conductors Academies (Curtis Institute, Orchestre Métropolitain and Domaine Forget). After his first steps opera experience at the Opéra de Montréal, he conquered held engagements at Vienna Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and National Opera Amsterdam before making his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2010, in a new production of Carmen.

An exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon, he recently released the complete Brahms Symphonies, the soundtrack for Bradley Cooper’s film Maestro with the London Symphony Orchestra and his first solo piano album, “Introspection”. In addition to holding eight honorary doctorates, he has received numerous awards, including four Grammys: Best Orchestral Performance (Florence Price – The Philadelphia Orchestra), 2022; Best Classical Vocal Album for “Voice of Nature – The Anthropocene” with Renée Fleming (Decca), 2023; Best Opera Recording successively for Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Terence Blanchard, 2023, and for Champion by Terence Blanchard, 2024.

Debut at the Opéra national de Paris

Immerse in the Paris Opera universe

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