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Born in Verona in 1987, Andrea Battistoni is one of the most appreciated young conductors on the international music scene.
After his official debut in Verona, where he conducted Puccini’s La Boheme in a Youth Production, the great recognition of the public and critics came during the 2010 Verdi Festival during which, conducting G. Verdi’s Attila, he showed his incredible and precocious talents as a conductor and as a musician endowed with great dramatic impetus and innate musicality.
Immediately the doors of the world’s most important Theaters and some of the most prestigious Symphony Orchestras opened wide.
He was appointed First Guest Conductor of the Teatro Regio di Parma from 2010 to 2013. He has conducted in Verdi’s hometown Falstaff, Stiffelio, Battaglia di Legnano, Barbiere di Siviglia and Rigoletto.
On the same time, since 2011 he has been a regular guest at the Arena di Verona where he has conducted Barbiere di Siviglia, Traviata, Turandot, Ballo in Maschera, Aida and Nabucco.
He has debuted in some of the most prestigious International Theaters becoming, over the years, a regular guest; among others: Il Trovatore, Nabucco, Tosca, Boheme, Rigoletto, Aida at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Rigoletto, La Boheme at the Palau del Les Arts in Valencia; Boheme, Traviata, Tosca at the Semperoper in Dresden; in St. Petersburg he conducted Attila and Tosca; Stiffelio and Tosca at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm; Otello, Tosca, Mefistofele, Attila, Aida, Turandot at Opera Australia in Sydney.
In 2012 he made his Teatro alla Scala debut with Le Nozze di Figaro, entering the history of the theater as the youngest conductor ever to take the podium.
Other major debuts followed at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with Il Cappello di Paglia, at the Carlo Felice in Genoa with Macbeth, at the Rossini Opera Festival with Il Viaggio a Reims, at the Stresa Festival with Il Matrimonio Segreto, at the Wiesbaden Festival with Elisir d’amore, at the San Carlo in Naples with La Boheme, at the Fenice in Venice with Il Barbiere di Siviglia, at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste with La Traviata at the Sferisterio Festival in Macerata with Rigoletto, at the Teatro Regio in Turin with La Boheme.
From November 2013 to December 2019 he is Principal Conductor of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; he has conducted, among others, productions of Otello (with Kunde, Agresta to be directed by Livermore), Carmen (with Ganassi, Meli and directed by Livermore), Luisa Miller (with Pirozzi and Nucci), Billy Budd (directed by Livermore), Amico Fritz in Concert form.
Notable engagements in recent Seasons include:
London’s Covent Garden debut with Tosca; Amsterdam debut with Traviata; Munich debut with Boheme, Ballo in maschera, Tosca, Macbeth; opening of the 2024/2025 Season in Dresden with Mefistofele.
Since January 2025 he is the Music Director of Teatro Regio in Turin, one of most prestigious Opera Housein Italy.
Parallel to the operatic repertoire, the series of debuts with some of the most prestigious Orchestras internationally made a remarkable impression.
These include Filarmonica della Scala, RAI di Torino, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Israel Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, etc etc.
At the end of 2013 he began his Artistic association with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, which would see him appointed a few months later as “Chief Conductor” for numerous Seasons and which occupies a prominent place in his current career.
Numerous Concerts each season, Operas in Concert form and symphonic recordings see him at the center of Japanese musical life and have, in fact, elected him as one of the most highly regarded Artists in symphony and opera in the East Countries.
Andrea Battistoni is also a composer, and his works are beginning to be highly appreciated for the variety of taste and styles and the propensity to search for a very personal and fresh musical line with a compositional vein that is as bright and captivating as ever.
Cyrille Nanchen began his singing training at the Schola de Sion, first as a soprano and then as a baritone, before joining several vocal ensembles in his home town.
He also studied piano, singing, theory and choral conducting at the Conservatoires of Sion and Fribourg. In 2018, he obtained his piano certificate in the classes of Cornelia Venetz and Rita Possa.
After studying music for a year at the University of Fribourg, Cyrille Nanchen was accepted as a choral conductor in the classes of Beat Schäfer and Markus Utz at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, where he also studied singing with Roswitha Müller. He also had the opportunity to work with Anders Eby (SE).
Since autumn 2018, he has been assistant director and singer of the Oberwalliser Vokalensemble.
Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski was awarded the title of “Principal Guest Conductor” in January 2022 by The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the first conductor to hold this position in the orchestra’s 42-year history.
In May 2022, Peltokoski was named Music and Artistic Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. He starts his term in the 22/23 season. He was subsequently named Principal Guest Conductor of the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest. In August 2022 at the age of 22, he completed his first Wagner Ring cycle at the Eurajoki Bel Canto Festival. In December 2022, Peltokoski was announced as Music Director of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.
Last season he made highly successful debuts with the hr- Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
In the summer of 2022 he appeared at Rheingau Musik Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn and Musikfest Bremen.
In the 22/23 season Tarmo Peltokoski has conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, RSB Berlin, the Hallé, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Göteborgs Symfoniker, San Diego Symphony and the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. He returned to Eurajoki Bel Canto Festival to conduct Tristan und Isolde.
In summer 2023 he will work with Latvian National Symphony in Riga for Siegfried.
In the 23/24 season Tarmo Peltokoski will conduct Don Giovanni at the Finnish National Opera. In the Fall he will be returning to Rotterdam Philharmonic and make his debut with The National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC both with Yuja Wang as soloist. Early 2024 sees him presenting both Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and a complete Prokofiev Piano Concerto Cycle with Jan Lisiecki, both with the The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. In July 2024, Peltokoski is set to conduct Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in Toulouse and Wagner’s Götterdämmerung in Riga.
He will debut with Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, at Pfingstfestspiele Baden-Baden and with The Oslo Philharmonic.
He has and will work with soloists such as Yuja Wang, Asmik Grigorian, Matthias Goerne, Jan Lisiecki, Julia Fischer, Golda Schultz, Martin Fröst, Janine Jansen, Leonidas Kavakos, Chen Reiss and Sol Gabetta.
Tarmo Peltokoski began his studies with professor emeritus Jorma Panula at the age of 14 and studied with Sakari Oramo at the Sibelius Academy. He has also been taught by Hannu Lintu, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Also an acclaimed pianist, he studied piano at the Sibelius Academy with Antti Hotti. His piano playing has been awarded at many competitions and he has appeared as a soloist with all major Finnish orchestras.
In 2022 he received the Lotto Prize at Rheingau Musik Festival and in 2023 he received the OPUS Klassik for his recording with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
In addition Tarmo Peltokoski has also studied composing and arranging, and especially enjoys music comedy and improvisation.
Vasily Petrenko is Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (since 2021), and Chief Conductor of the European Union Youth Orchestra (since 2015). He is Conductor Laureate of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, following his hugely acclaimed fifteen year tenure as their Chief Conductor from 2006-2021, and has also served as Principal Guest Conductor and subsequently Artistic Director of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (2016-2022), Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (2013-2020), Principal Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (2009–2013), and Principal Guest Conductor of St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre, where he began his career as Resident Conductor (1994–1997).
Vasily Petrenko was born in 1976 and started his music education at the St Petersburg Capella Boys Music School – Russia’s oldest music school. He then studied at the St Petersburg Conservatoire where he participated in masterclasses with such luminary figures as Ilya Musin, Mariss Jansons and Yuri Temirkanov.
He has worked with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), St Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Czech Philharmonic, NHK Symphony and Sydney Symphony orchestras. He has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, Grafenegg Festival and made frequent appearances at the BBC Proms. Recent years have seen a series of highly successful North American debuts, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Montréal and St Louis Symphony orchestras.
Equally at home in the opera house, and with over thirty operas in his repertoire, Vasily Petrenko made his debuts in 2010 at Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Macbeth) and the Opéra de Paris (Eugene Onegin), and in recent seasons has also conducted at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, Zürich Opera and Bayerische Staatsoper. In the 19/20 season, he also made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York with a production of The Queen of Spades.
Vasily Petrenko has established a strongly defined profile as a recording artist. Amongst a wide discography, his Shostakovich symphony cycle for Naxos Records with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has garnered worldwide acclaim. With the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, he has recently released cycles of Scriabin’s symphonies and Strauss’ tone poems.
In September 2017, Vasily Petrenko was honoured with the Artist of the Year award at the prestigious annual Gramophone Awards, one decade on from receiving their Young Artist of the Year award in October 2007. In 2010, he won the Male Artist of the Year at the Classical BRIT Awards and is only the second person to have been awarded Honorary Doctorates by both the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University (in 2009), and an Honorary Fellowship of the Liverpool John Moores University (in 2012), awards which recognise the immense impact he has had on the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the city’s cultural scene.
Jing Huan currently serves as Principal Conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Guangzhou Symphony Youth Orchestra. She also serves on the boards of the China Musicians Association and Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI). In August 2022, she participated in the 2022 National Outstanding Young Artists (Conductors) Showcase organized by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Musicians Association. On that occasion, she was selected among the “Top Ten Young Conductors of China.”
A graduate of Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music who received her training with Professor Xu Xin, she obtained her Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting in 2009 at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) under the tutelage of Mark Gibson, where she was awarded a full scholarship to continue her doctoral studies, concurrently serving as the Conductor Assistant of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO), including the CSO’s May Festival (2011–2013). During the same period, she was also Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Artaria Chamber Orchestra.
In June 2012, Jing Huan was one of two prizewinners at the inaugural Li Delun National Conducting Competition held in Qingdao, China. In the same year, she participated in the Campos do Jordão International Festival in São Paulo, where her outstanding performance led to an invitation by Maestra Marin Alsop to serve as Assistant Conductor of the São Paulo State Symphony’s 2013 music season. That same year, Jing Huan and her work with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra attracted the attention of Maestro Long Yu, which led to her appointment at the GSO.
In December 2013, Jing Huan made her critically-acclaimed debut concert as the Resident Conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, leading soloist Maxim Vengerov in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Since then, she has received invitations and collaborated with such orchestras as the China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony, Shenzhen Symphony, Hangzhou Philharmonic, Guiyang Symphony, Ningbo Symphony, Xi’an Symphony, Qingdao Symphony, Sichuan Symphony, Shaanxi Symphony, Xinjiang Symphony, Kunming Nie Er Symphony, Shenyang Symphony, Macao Orchestra,Macao Chinese Orchestra and Tianjin Julliard Symphony during their music seasons, garnering much praise. She has collaborated with such renowned soloists as Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang, Rudolf Buchbinder, Vadim Repin, Gil Shaham, Midori, Robert Blocker, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Jian Wang, Lü Siqing, Li-Wei Qin, Zhang Haochen, Chen Sa, Warren Mok, Liao Changyong, Liang Ning and Huang Ying.
In 2014, Jing Huan was appointed as Music Director of the Guangzhou Symphony Youth Orchestra (GSYO). Under her leadership, the orchestra charted remarkable progress and made their first tour to Europe, appearing at the Berlin Philharmonie under the auspices of Young Euro Classic in August 2015. Jing Huan’s achievements at the helm of the GSYO attracted the attention of Jeunesses Musicales International, and she was elected to serve on JMI’s Board in July 2016.
In October 2016, Jing Huan presented a concert entitled “In Love with Shakespeare” at the Beijing Music Festival to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. In January 2017, she was appointed Secretary-General of the Artistic Committee of Youth Music Culture Guangdong (YMCG) and conducted its critically-acclaimed opening concert.
In May 2017, Jing Huan conducted the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra on their European tour to Italy and the United Kingdom. Three months later, she led the GSYO on their Asia tour to Sydney, Jakarta and Singapore for cultural exchange. In late July 2018, she returned with the GSYO to Europe, performing in Lyon (France), Prague (Czech Republic) and the Musica Riva Festival, Lago di Garda (Italy). In July 2019, she led the GSYO on tour to Japan, performing at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall and the Fukuoka Symphony Hall, the latter as part of a cultural exchange commemorating the 40th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Guangzhou and Fukuoka.
Oleksandr Yankevych began playing the piano at age 10 and graduated with honours at the Music Academy of Bydgoszcz in Poland. Later, he joined the Opera Studio of the Warsaw State Opera and the Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House before working as korrepetitor and assistant conductor at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. Yankevych is Laureate of several international competitions, including the HSBC Académie d’Aix-en-Provence (2018), and won Second Prize and the Orchestra Prize at the 2021 Arturo Toscanini Competition (Parma).
Gerald Karni enjoys a diverse career in music, regularly traveling around the world with leading instrumentalists and conductors. Born in Israel, he began violin at a young age before switching to the viola, which he plays as member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, led by Daniel Barenboim. As a conductor, he has worked with orchestras in the United States, Finland, Bulgaria, Hungary and Switzerland under the guidance of teachers such as Jorma Panula, Benjamin Zander and Marc Kissozcky. Gerald is mentored by both Daniel Barenboim and Jorma Panula. In 2021, he was awarded a Silver Medal as well as a Special Mention at the Third International Antal Doráti Conducting Competition in Budapest.
In February 2023, French conductor Samy Rachid was appointed the new Assistant Conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Andris Nelsons for a two-year term, effective in October 2023. He will debut with the orchestra during the Tanglewood Music Festival 2024, followed by subscription concerts at Symphony Hall during Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2024/25 season. Currently working as Assistant Conductor of the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, Samy Rachid was a Conducting Fellow in the Verbier Festival Conducting programme in 2022, where he worked with such renowned conductors as Klaus Mäkelä and Gianandrea Noseda, and took part in the Gstaad Conducting Academy, where he worked closely with Jaap von Zweden and became the first French conductor to be awarded the Academy’s Neeme Järvi Prize.
Jaehyuck Choi is a conductor-composer, and artistic director of the ensemble blank. After having his debut with the London Symphony at the Lucerne Festival in 2018, Choi has been invited to Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Trondheim Symphony, etc. He was assistant conductor to Paavo Järvi’s Korean Tour, Vienna Opera Academy, and guest assistant to Ensemble Intercontemporain. Winning the First prize of the Concours de Genève with his clarinet concerto in 2017 and conducting the London Symphony at the Lucerne Festival with Sir Simon Rattle on Stockhausen’s Gruppen in 2018, brought him international recognition as both composer and conductor. Choi’s works are represented by Universal Edition in Wien, which have been performed and commissioned by Menuhin Competition, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Parker Quartet, Divertimento ensemble, Chamber Music Columbus, Banff Centre for the arts and creativity, etc. Graduate of The Juilliard School and the Barenboim-Said Akademie, Jaehyuck makes his home in Berlin and Seoul.
Israeli conductor Rotem Nir currently serves as the Conductor in Residence and Head of Music at the Israeli Opera, while also working as the assistant to the music director at the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion. With extensive experience, he has previously worked as an assistant conductor at the Israel Chamber Orchestra and has conducted numerous Israeli orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. Rotem’s repertoire spans from Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno with the Georgisches Kammerorchester in Ingolstadt to Verdi’s La traviata at the Israeli Opera. He has garnered recognition through awards such as the Golden Baton conducting competition of the Buchmann Mehta School of Music and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the New Conductors competition of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Rotem’s musical education includes studies at the Nes Ziona Conservatory, the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts, and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, where he studied conducting with Yoav Talmi and bassoon with Daniel Mazaki. 2024 marks Rotem’s second year as a Fellow of the Verbier Festival’s Conducting Programme.