Lorenzo Viotti

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Lorenzo Viotti (born March 15, 1990 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss conductor .

Youth and education

Lorenzo Viotti grew up in a family of musicians as the son of the conductor  Marcello Viotti and the violinist Marie-Laure Viotti and studied piano , singing and drums in Lyon . In 2009 he went to Vienna to deepen his percussion training at the Vienna Conservatory and to do additional training as a conductor. Here he attended Georg Mark's conducting class . During this time he played as a percussionist in several orchestras , including the Vienna Philharmonic . He continued his conductor training with a master’s degree at the Liszt University of Music in Weimar  (conducting class of Nicolás Pasquet ), which he completed in 2015.

Career

Viotti made his debut as a conductor in 2013 in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein with the Academic Symphony Orchestra Vienna. In the same year he conducted the Jena Philharmonic and “followed by his successful first appearance with the Orchester Philharmonique de Nice , which Viotti now conducts regularly.” In 2014, Viotti made his debut as a conductor with the MDR Symphony Orchestra . Since then he has "conducted many leading orchestras, including the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria , the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester , the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra , the Orchester National de France in Paris , the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra , the Tokyo and Osaka Symphony Orchestra , the Bamberg Symphony , the Bremen Philharmonic , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the Munich Radio Orchestra , the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne , the Göteborgs Symfoniker , the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Camerata Salzburg , the Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon , the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden and the Gustav Mahler Youth orchestra . "

Viotti made his debut as an opera conductor in the summer of 2013 with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn . Other operas he has conducted include Jacques Offenbach's Die Schöne Helena  at the  Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris , Gioachino Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio  at the  Teatro La Fenice in Venice , Georges Bizet's Carmen at the  Klagenfurt City Theater  and Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto at the  Stuttgart State Theater and the  Semperoper in Dresden . In 2017 he conducted Gaetano Donizetti's Viva la Mamma at the  Opéra National de Lyon .

He conducted Jules Massenets Werther at the Frankfurt Opera , at the  Klagenfurt City Theater  and at the  Zurich Opera .

Lorenzo Viotti has been chief conductor of the Orquestra Gulbenkian  in Lisbon since the 2018/19 season ; previously he was acting chief conductor of this orchestra in 2017/18. In 2020 he played with the Berlin Philharmonic and the STAATS UND DOMCHOR BERLIN in the Berlin Philharmonic.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Salzburg: Lorenzo Viotti wins the Young Conductors Award. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Lorenzo Viotti. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 13, 2018 ; accessed on January 10, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oper-leipzig.de
  3. ↑ a b Lorenzo Viotti wins the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Awards. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c BIOGRAPHY Lorenzo Viotti. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Viotti becomes chief conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. Retrieved January 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Massenets Werther: Lover gives himself the ball. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  7. ^ Il Massenet di Lorenzo Viotti all'Oper Frankfurt. Retrieved January 10, 2018 (Italian).
  8. ↑ FRANKFURT: WERTHER - Habemus Maestro! Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b LORENZO VIOTTI. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Lorenzo Viotti. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Viotti, Lorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne