Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain since 2000 and Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012, Yannick Nézet-Séguin also became, in 2018, the third Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera (Met) in New York, and in 2016 was named an Honorary Life Member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He also remains conductor emeritus of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, which he led for 10 years.

He has worked regularly with many leading European ensembles such as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He also conducts for operas such as the Met in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London, all this in some of the world's most prestigious venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, and Carnegie Hall in New York.

He received the Virginia Parker Award for Artist of the Year, 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, Orchestras Canada’s Betty Webster Award, the Rubies Award by Opera Canada, and, in 2022, he won the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance of Florence Price’s Symphony No.3 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Nominated for 5 Grammy Awards in 2023, he also received the award for Best Opera Recording as a conductor (MET: Fire shut up in my bones) and Best Classical Solo Vocal Album as a pianist (with famous soprano Renée Fleming for Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene).

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).