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Nir Kabaretti
Conductor
Born
in Israel, Nir Kabaretti was recently chosen as Music Director of the Santa
Barbara Symphony.
He studied piano and conducting at the Rubin
Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University and later received a
conducting degree at the prestigious University
of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Upon
graduation, he began working as Coach and Chorus Master at the Vienna
State Opera and the Salzburg
Festival, followed by positions as assistant to the Music
Director at the Teatro
Real in Madrid and conductor and personal assistant to Maestro Zubin
Mehta at Teatro
del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence.
In
recent years he has established an outstanding international reputation
conducting major orchestras such as The
Israel Philharmonic,
L'Orchestra
del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino, Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra,
Jerusalem
Symphony Orchestra,
Israel
Symphony Orchestra of Rishon Le Tzion,
Vienna
Chamber Orchestra,
Niederösterreichisches
Tonkünstlerorchester,
La Orquesta
Sinfonica de Madrid,
La Orquesta
Filarmonica di Gran Canaria
and the Bochumer
Symphoniker.
During
2004-05, Nir Kabaretti made his début at Teatro
alla Scala
di Milano with Tchaikowsky´s The
Nutcracker and
returned there in January 2007 with Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
obtaining a great success.
His
operatic experience includes several productions at the Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino
(Abduction
from the Seraglio, Macbet, Il Trovatore, Gianni Schicchi, The Journey to Rheims)
; Teatro
Real
in Madrid (Cenerentola,
The Valkyrie);
The
Israeli Opera (Fidelio,
Manon Lescaut) and
The
New National Theatre in Tokyo
(The
Barber of Seville).
He conducted The
Diary of Anne Frank ,
a guest production of the Vienna State Opera performed at both the Bregenz
Festival
and Expo
2000
in Hanover . He also lead Teatro
San Carlo di Napoli
on its first tour to Japan conducting Il
Trovatore both
in Kyoto and Tokyo, with Fiorenza Cedolins and Salvatore Licitra.
In
2002, Kabaretti was appointed Principal Conductor of the Raanana
Symphonette Orchestra
in Israel and in 2003, its Music Director, a role he continues to hold today.
Among
his recognitions, Kabaretti was awarded the America-Israel
Cultural Foundation Grant for Young Conductors, First Place
winner of the 1993 Forum
Junger Künstler Conducting Competition in Vienna and in 1994
was a finalist in the International
Competition for Conductors in Douai, France.
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