Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Maestro Nézet-Séguin has been at the helm of the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal since March 2000 and is at the forefront of Montreal’s music scene, in addition to leading an active conducting career on the international stage.
His newly-realeased cd Bruckner 7 has already gotten excellent reviews, notably from Norman Lebrecht in the Evening Standard:
This is the finest Bruckner I have heard from a young conductor since Franz Welser-Möst started shaving. The Canadian in charge is 31 years old and has just been appointed to succeed Valery Gergiev in Rotterdam. He shapes the gigantic Adagio at the heart of this work, a tribute to the dying Wagner, with austere and respectful restraint. The performance as a whole is marked by a fastidious refusal to emote and a structural certainty that seems uncanny in a maestro of such little experience. Within the massive score, he teases out decorative details from the woodwinds and lower strings, cleaning up the old warhorse as if it were about to run at Ascot. The opening of the finale is positively frisky and the playing of Montreal's second orchestra is flawless, world-class. Nézet-Séguin is unquestionably the talent to watch.
The 2006-2007 season brings Nézet-Séguin to Switzerland, France, Germany, England, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Australia and, in Canada, to Toronto, Calgary and Victoria. Upcoming debuts include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Swedish Radio Symphony, the Finnish Radio Symphony, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
In September 2006, Le Monde de la musique, a prestigious French publication, included Yannick Nézet-Séguin in a list of the 10 most promising young conductors of the 21st century.
In addition to his responsibilities with the Orchestre Métropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will also become Music Director of the prestigious Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2008. This major appointment, attesting to the young Montreal conductor’s international reputation, will have no effect on his role or presence with the Orchestre Métropolitain. We are thrilled and honoured to have Yannick back at High Notes this year.
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