Mozart Lieder

About the Artist At 32, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is chosen unanimously by the musicians to become Music Director of the prestigious Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, beginning with the 2008-2009 season, succeeding Valery Gergiev. Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal since March 2000, he has brought this orchestra to musical summits and unequalled popularity, sharing with his musicians rigor and passion for music of different styles as well as deep respect for their audiences. Beginning September 2008, he will hold concurrently the functions of Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Maestro Nézet-Séguin conducts some of the greatest orchestras in the world, such as the Dresden's Staatskapelle, Stockholm, Birmingham, Toulouse, Lyon, Sydney and New Zealand orchestras, the Orchestre national de France, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Swedish and Frankfurt Radio orchestras, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with whom he is developing a regular relationship. 2008-2009 will mark his début with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony. In Canada, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is also invited to conduct the Toronto and the Vancouver Symphonies, the Ottawa National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Victoria Symphony where he has been Principal Guest Conductor from 2003 to 2006. As an opera conductor, after a fabulous success in June 2008 with Madama Butterfly at l'Opéra de Montréal, he is making his début at the famous Salzburg Festival with the Mozarteum Orchester in a new production of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. In May-June 2009, he will conduct the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra for nine performances of Janacek's Makropoulos Case in Amsterdam. His début at the Metropolitan Opera New York are scheduled for early 2010. Born in Montreal in 1975, Yannick Nézet-Séguin began piano lessons at the age of five and later entered the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he studied piano with Anisia Campos and composition, chamber music, and conducting. He received five first prizes from this institution. While attending the Conservatoire, Yannick Nézet-Séguin also studied choral conducting at Westminster Choir Coll