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Emmanuel Siffert
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Emmanuel Siffert - Conductor Emmanuel Siffert is Principal Conductor of the European Chamber Opera in London, the Orchestra Sinfonica Vallé d’Aosta in Italy and Artistic Director of the Swiss Chamber Orchestra.

He was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1967 and studied violin in Salzburg (Prof. Sandor Végh), and conducting in Switzerland (Horst Stein, Ralf Weikert) and with Jorma Panula (Helsinki), Carlo Maria Giulini (Milano).

In 1993/95, Emmanuel Siffert was awarded the Conducting Prize of the Schweizerischen Tonkünstlerverein.

From 1989 to 1994 he was a member of the Camerata Academica Salzburg (as violinist).

Otherwise, his musical career has included:

Assistant conductor
1994 - 1997 St.-Gallen Opera – John Neschling
1995 Opera Festival Avenches
1997 Szeged Theatre
1998 Grand Théâtre de Genève – Armin Jordan
2001 Teatro Lirico di Cagliari – Rafael Frübeck de Burgos
2001/2002 Teatro Lirico di Cagliari – Gérard Korsten
Other positions:
European Chamber Opera - London
“Sinfonica” Orchestra Sinfonica della Vallé d’Aosta (and Artistic Director)
Swiss Chamber Orchestra
Guest Conductor at Opera houses / Operngastdirigate
"Staedtische Bühnen Nürnberg" - Carmen 2002 / Rigoletto 2003
12. International Festival of the Opera and Ballet Stars “Maria Biesu Invites” – Chisinau – Moldavia
Ballet
“English National Ballet” The Nutcracker Apollo-Theater – season 03/04

CDs

  • National Symphony Orchestra of South-Africa
  • Swiss Chamber Orchestra
  • “Sinfonica” Orchestra Sinfonica della Vallé d’Aosta (Italy)
  • Orchestra “La Consorterie” (Italy)
  • Swiss Youth Chamber Orchestra
  • Orchestre de Chambre de Fribourg

Radio broadcasts

  • Rundfunksinfonieorchester Saarbrücken (live – recording, France Musique)
  • Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
  • Swiss Chamber Orchestra (live-recording, Suisse Radio “Espace 2”)

Conducted orchestras:

  • Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria
  • Slowenische Philharmonie
  • Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Wiener Mozartorchester
  • Symphonieorchester St.-Gallen
  • Lutoslawski-Philharmonie Wroclaw
  • National Symphony Orchestra of South-Africa
  • Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana – Lugano
  • Berner Symphonieorchester
  • Ensemble 2e2m – Paris
  • Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz
  • London Mozart Players
  • Nordböhmische Philharmonie Teplice
  • Runffunksinfonieorchester Saarbrücken
  • Basler Kammerorchester
  • Orchestre de Chambre Suisse
  • Sudecka Philharmonie Walbrych
  • Rubinstein Philharmony – Lodz
  • Orchestra Sinfonica Aosta
  • Dohnanyi Erno Symphony Orchestra Budapest
  • Orchestra of European Chamber Opera
  • European Union Chamber Orchestra
  • Nürnberger Philharmoniker
  • Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
  • Orchestra of the Moldavian National Opera
  • Orchestra of the English National Ballet
  • Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

OPERA – REPERTOIRE

  • W.A.Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Cosi fan tutte, La Clemenza di Tito,Die Entfürung aus dem Serail
  • G.Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola
  • G.Verdi:La Traviata, Rigoletto,Un Ballo in Maschera, Nabucco, Aida, Otello,Falstaff
  • G.Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Tosca, La Bohème,Turandot
  • Bizet: Carmen
  • Gounod: Faust vDebussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
  • Delius : A village Romeo and Juliette
  • R.Strauss : Salomé, Ariadne auf Naxos, Der Rosenkavalier*
  • J.Strauss: Die Fledermaus, Zigeunerbaron
  • Léhar: Die lustige Witwe
  • Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
  • Falla: La Vida Breve
  • Wagner: Tannhäuser, Parsifal,Der Fliegende Holländer

Symphonic Repertoire

Chausson, Rachmaninoff, Respighy, Elgar, Delius, Stenhammer, Svendsen, Vaughan-Williams, Sibelius, Grieg, Dvorak, Tschaikowsky, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Schubert, Mozart

Contact details and further information

5,Malmesbury Road,
South Woodford
LONDON E18 2NL

Mobile UK: +44 (0)788 796 1120

PO BOX 1356,
CH – 1001 Lausanne
Tel: +41 76 377 17 90

Mobil Italy: +39 329 649 75 86

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