Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conducts Vienna New Year's Concert 2026
Yannick Nézet-Séguin will be a newcomer to the New Year's concert at the Musikverein on January 1, but the music director of the New York Metropolitan Opera is no stranger to the Philharmonic. Nézet-Séguin has already led the orchestra through the Summer Night Concert in Schönbrunn.
Nézet-Séguin was an Early Starter in the Classical Field
The Canadian comes from an intellectual household as the son of two university teachers. Born in the Francophone metropolis of Montreal, Yannick received early piano lessons, which he later studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec in Montreal, along with composition and conducting.
Nézet-Séguin's actual conducting career began in 2000 as the chief conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain in his hometown of Montreal - since 2019 with a lifetime contract. In 2008, he added the position of chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, which he held until 2018.
Breakthrough Came at Salzburg Festival
The real international breakthrough, however, can be located in 2008 at the Salzburg Festival, when the then 33-year-old convinced with his conducting of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette". This sparked numerous guest conducting roles with the most important orchestras in the world - from the Berlin to the Vienna Philharmonic.
At the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the traditional sound bodies of the USA, Nézet-Séguin became music director in 2012, with his current contract running until 2030 - and this, although the busy classical expert, who has so far been experienced six times at the Vienna State Opera, has held one of the prestigious positions in the opera business since 2018: After the disgraceful dismissal of James Levine, the New York Metropolitan Opera decided to commit Nézet-Séguin as music director - here too at least until 2030.
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