YANNICK
NÉZET-SÉGUIN

Biography

The Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain since 2000, Yannick Nézet-Séguin signed a “lifelong” commitment with the Orchestre in September 2019. In September 2018, he became the third Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera (MET), New York in addition to his ongoing duties as Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he has served since 2012. In 2016-2017, he became a lifetime Honorary Member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. After a ten-year tenure with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, he was appointed Honorary Conductor in 2019, a position he holds to this day.

He has worked regularly with many leading European ensembles and enjoyed many close collaborations with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Philharmoniker, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk and Chamber Orchestra of Europe as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2008 to 2014. His opera interpretations have been acclaimed in many of the world’s most famous houses, including the Metropolitan Opera (New York), La Scala (Milan), and the Royal Opera House (London), in the Salzburg Festival, as well as in such renowned concert halls as the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Festspielhaus (Baden-Baden) and Carnegie Hall (New York).

Yannick Nézet-Séguin records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon label while continuing his role in the collaborative partnership between ATMA Classique and the OM. His honours include being named Artist of the Year by the prestigious magazine Musical America and receiving the Virginia Parker Award, a Royal Philharmonic Society Award (London), Canada’s National Arts Centre Award (Ottawa), the Prix Denise-Pelletier, awarded by the Quebec government, the Medal of Honor of the National Assembly of Quebec, the Oskar Morawetz Award and Orchestras Canada’s Betty Webster Award, the Rubies Award by Opera Canada. His Grammy Awards include Best Orchestral Performance, for Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3 with The Philadelphia Orchestra (2022), Best Opera Recording, for Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2023) and Champion (2024) at the Metropolitan Opera; and Best Vocal Recording, for Voice of Nature: Anthropocene with soprano Renée Fleming (2023).

Yannick Nézet-Séguin holds seven honorary doctorates (Université du Québec à Montréal, 2011; Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, 2014; Rider University, Princeton, 2015; McGill University, Montreal, 2017, Université de Montréal, 2017; Pennsylvania University, 2018; Université Laval, 2021) and has been made a Companion of the Order of Canada (2012), Companion of the Quebec Order for the Arts and Literature (2015), Officer of the National Order of Quebec (2015), Officer of the Ordre de Montréal (2017), honorary member of the Royal Conservatory of Music (2020) and Officer of the French Republic Order for the Arts and Literature (2021).

One of Quebec’s leading cultural ambassadors, the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal was founded in 1981 on a bold gamble: that the best way to promote symphonic music is by creating strong ties with the public.

2000

Yannick is appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of OM.
2008-2018

Yannick is appointed musical director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, then Honorary Conductor.
2012

Yannick is appointed Musical Director of The Philadelphia Orchestra.
2017

The first OM’s Europeen tour.
2018

Yannick is appointed Musical Director of te Metropolitan Opera of New York.
Summer 2019

Record summer season: More than 70,000 attendees.
Fall 2019

Renewal for life of Yannick’s contract with the OM.
End of the season 2019-2020

Yannick’s 600th concert with the OM.

Un mot de Yannick

YANNICK
NÉZET-SÉGUIN

Biography

Over the years

2000

2008-2018

2012

2017

2018

Summer 2019

Fall 2019

End of the season 2019-2020

Renewal of Yannick Nézet-Séguin's contract with the OM for life