Biografia

CV Marzo 2024
Attualmente, Emmanel Siffert é direttore principale de la Orchestra de Camara Nazionale de Chile (Formazione Beethoven 7). E stato direttore principale de la Orchestre Sinfonica de San Juan (Argentina), de la Orchestra Sinfonica de Aguascalientes (Mexico) ,Orchestra Sinfonica della Valle d’Aosta, Orchestra de Camera Svizzera, European Chamber Opera a Londra , ha collaborato regolarmente con il Teatro Colon a Buenos Aires, dirigendo Balletti. Ha tenuto la cattedra di direzione d’orchestra presso l’Università Nazionale di San Juan, ha insegnato repertorio operistico per cantanti presso l’Istituto Superiore di Atre del Teatro Colon di Buenos Aires.

Nato a Friburgo nel 1967, compie gli studi come violinista a Friburgo, Basilea  e a Salisburgo, dove si perfeziona con Sandor Végh. Nel 1984 vince il primo premio al Concorso Internazionale di musica di Stresa. Nel 1986 diventa primo violino dell’Orchestra Sinfonica Giovanile Europea. Dal 1990 al 1993 è membro della “Camerata Accademica des Mozarteums” di Salisburgo. Compie gli studi di direzione d’orchestra in Svizzera con Ewald Körner, Horst Stein e Ralf Weikert, a Helsinkij con Jorma Panula e a Milano con Carlo Maria Giulini. Nel 1993 e nel 1995 ottiene il primo premio di direzione d’orchestra dalla “Association des Musiciens Suisses”. È stato assistente di John Neschling al Teatro dell’Opera di San Gallo, di Armin Jordan al Grand Théatre di Ginevra e di Rafael Frubek de Burgos al Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. È stato anche assistente per "La vedova allegra" a l’Opera de Lyon.

Emmanuel Siffert  è stato il direttore principale della Ecuador National Symphony Orchestra a Quito, in Ecuador ,de la European Chamber Opera, Londra e dell'Orchestra Sinfonica della Valle d’ Aosta, Italia.  E stato  Direttore Musicale de la Scuola de Opera "Wales International Academy of Voice" (Saturday Academy) e  lavora come direttore per orchestra, opera e balletto, e dà corsi di direzione d’orchestra e corsi per cantanti d'opera.

Ha diretto per due stagioni il National Ballet Inglese, e al  l'Opera di Norimberga, il Teatro dell'Opera della Moldavia a Chisinau.

Altre orchestre che Emmanuel ha diretto includono la Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Rundfunksinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa, Slowenische Philharmonie, Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Mozartorchester, Berner Symphonieorchester ,Basler Kammerorchester, Sudecka Philharmonie, Dohnanyi Erno Symphony Orchestra of Budapest, Orchestra of European Chamber Opera, Nürnberger Philharmoniker, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra e la Cairo Symphony Orchestra.

Emmanuel Siffert ha fatto CD con la National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa (2000), l'Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (2005), Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra (2005), Orchestra Filarmonica di Volgograd (2005, 2006, 2007), la Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (2006, 2009, 2017), Orchestra de Camera della Svizzera (2001/2003/2009), "Sinfonica" d'Aosta (2002/2003, 2004, 2006), Orchestra "La Consorterie" (1997), Orchestre de Chambre de Fribourg (1994).

Un numero di progetti speciali Emmanuel Siffert è coinvolto in includono rare sinfonie italiano del 18 ° secolo (preparazione delle parte orchestrale), e la registrazione delle opere orchestrali e operistici di compositori svizzeri in collaborazione con VDE-Gallo. E anche el autore del metodo online della Direzione d'Orchestra  www.approachtoconducting.com

Birth             November 1, 1967
Address        PO Box 1356
CH - 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland
Whatsapp      +41 76 377 17 90
Skypename   esiffert
Email            emmanuelsiffert@gmail.com
Website        www.emmanuelsiffert.com
Online conducting book: www.approachtoconducting.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/approachtoconducting
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelsiffertconductor
Instagram: @emmanuel_siffert_conductor

Nationality:    Swiss (Native), Italian, Argentina

Current Position
2022     Principal Conductor and Artistic Director, National Chamber Orchestra of Chile (Mendelssohn 4 formation)
2024     Principal Guest Conductor National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina

Past Positions
2021-2022    Principal Conductor and Artistic Director, Orquesta Sinfónica de Aguascalientes, Mexico
2014-2021    Principal Conductor and Artistic Director, Orquesta Sinfónica de San Juan, Argentina
2013-2018    Resident Conductor, Free Opera Company, Zurich, Switzerland
2013-2017    Guest Conductor for Ballet, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
2012-2015    Principal Guest Conductor, Wales Concert Orchestra - UK
2011-2015    Music Director, Wales International Academy of Voice, Saturday Academy
2007-2009    Principal Conductor, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Ecuador, Quito
2000-2010    Principal Conductor, Swiss Chamber Orchestra
2000-2009    Principal Conductor, Orchestra Sinfonica Aosta, Italy
1998-2007    Principal Conductor, European Chamber Opera, London

Teaching-activity
2023              Masterclass for Conducting in Santiago (Chile)
2017-2022    Teacher for Opera-Repertoire-Instituto Superior de Arte Teatro Colón
2016-2023    Buenos Aires – Universidad Cattolica (UCA) Ballet-Conducting
2017-2019    Royal College of Music (RCM) – London - Conducting
2018               China Conservatory of Music – Beijing - Conducting
2010-2021    Masterclasses for Conducting (Quito, Porthcawl, Volgograd)
2008-2014    Coach for Opera in different International Summer-Academies

Education
1994-1995    Conducting with Carlo Maria Giulini (Milan - Study Certificate)
1993-1994    Conducting with Jorma Panula (Helsinki – Study Certificate)
1989-1993    Conducting with E.Körner, H.Stein, R.Weikert (UN Bern-St.Certificate)
1989-1990    Violin with Sandor Végh in Salzburg
1983-1989    Violin, Universities of Fribourg and Basel (Bachelor + PhD)
1986-1989    Chamber music, University of Basel (PhD Degree)

Honors and Awards
2024             “Circulo de Criticos de Arte de Chile” for the season 2023 Chile C.O.
1993,1995    Conducting Prize: “Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein”

Violin career
1990-1994    Violinist “Camerata Academica, Salzburg”

Assistant conductor
2006             Opéra de Lyon – Gérard Korsten
2001-2002    Teatro Lirico di Cagliari – Rafael Frübeck de Burgos/ Gérard Korsten
1998             Grand Théâtre de Genève – Armin Jordan
1995             Opera Festival Avenches
1995-1997    St.-Gallen Opera – John Neschling

Languages
Native            German, French
Fluent            Italian, English, Spanish

Guest, Opera Houses
2013-2018    Free Opera Company, Zürich
2015-2016    ISA – Instituto Superior de Arte – Teatro Colón – Buenos Aires
2012-2014    Opera Volgograd, Russia
2013               Opera-Festival La Perla, Zürich
2010-2013    Teatro Municipal – Lima, Peru
2005-2006    Teatro Nichelino – Torino, Italy
2008               Teatro Sucre – Quito, Ecuador
2002-2006    Moldavian National Opera, Chisinau
2002-2003    Städtische Bühnen, Nürnberg

Ballet
2023             National Ballet of Uruguay
2022             National Ballet of Norway
2022-2023    Ballet-Academy Aguascalientes - Mexico
2020             National Ballet of Ecuador
2018             National Ballet of Vietnam – Ho-Chi-Min
2013-2017    Ballet Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires
2017-2019    Ballet San Juan, Argentina
2012-2013    Ballet Volgograd, Russia
2011-2012    Royal Ballet Covent Garden, London
2002-2003    English National Ballet, London
1997-1998    Ballet Theater St.-Gallen

CD’s
2024                      China National Symphony Orchestra (Wergo – Schott)
2022                      Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, Mexico
2018 - 2021           San Juan Symphony Orchestra – Argentina (3 CD’s)
2006 - 2020           Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – London (4 CD’s - Naxos)
2016                      Orchestre de l’Haute Ecole de Musique – Lausanne
2012                      Orquesta de la Provincia de Rosario
2001, 2003, 2009    Swiss Chamber Orchestra
2005, 2006, 2007    Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra
2002-2006              Orchestra Sinfonica, Aosta, Italy (4 CD’s)
2005                       Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
2005                       Sofia Symphony Orchestra
2000                       National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa
1997                       Orchestra La Consorterie – Aosta - Italia
1997                       Swiss Youth Chamber Orchestra
1994                       Orchestre de Chambre de Fribourg

Online book about Conducting
www.approachtoconducting.com

Special projects
Orchestral works by Swiss Composers (recording and musical-edition project, in collaboration with the VDE-GALLO label and the Music Department of the University in Lausanne)

Conducted Orchestras (professional contracts)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London
Orchestra of the English National Ballet
London Mozart Players
Welsh National Opera Orchestra

Norsk Opera Orchestra - Oslo
National Symphony Orchestra of South-Africa
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Armenien Philharmonic Orchestra
Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria
Slowenische Philharmonie
Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra
Wiener Mozartorchester
Symphonieorchester St.-Gallen

Lutoslawski-Philharmonie Wroclaw
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano
Berner Symphonieorchester
Ensemble 2e2m, Paris
Plzen Opera-Orchestra

Chamber Orchestra Durres, Albania
Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra “George Enescu”
Nordböhmische Philharmonie Teplice
Basler Kammerorchester
Swiss Chamber Orchestra

Sudecka Philharmonie
Rubinstein Philharmony, Lodz
Orchestra Sinfonica Aosta
Dohnanyi Erno Symphony Orchestra Budapest
Orchestra  of European Chamber Opera

Nürnberger Philharmoniker
Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
European Union Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra of the National Opera of Chisinau
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg

Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz
Sofia Symphony Orchestra
Cairo Symphony Orchestra
Moldavian Radio-and Television-Orchestra
KwaZuluNatal Philharmonic Orchestra, Durban, South Africa

Ecuador National Symphonic Orchestra
Loja Symphony Orchestra, Ecuador
Orquesta Sinfónica Uncuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
Orquesta Sinfónica Aguascalientes, México
Rundfunksinfonieorchester Saarbrücken

Cuenca Symphony Orchestra, Ecuador
Orquesta Ciudad de Lima, Perú
Orquesta Sinfonica de Michoacan, México
Welsh Concert Orchestra
Orchestre de Chambre Fribourgeois

Yaquina Chamber Orchestra, Oregon
Montevideo Philharmonic, Uruguay
Asti Filarmonica, Italy
Perú National Symphony Orchestra
Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela

Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa, México
Prag Concert Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra of the Opera Volgograd
Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Filarmonia, Lima, Perú
Orquesta Sinfónica de Rosario, Argentina

Chamber Orchestra CHAARTS, Zürich
Orquesta Sinfónica  San Juan, Argentina
Musikkollegium Winterthur, Switzerland
Orquesta Sinfónica Concepcion, Chile
Orquesta Sinfónica de Salta, Argentina

Sinfonisches Orchester Zürich
Fundación Orquesta Sinfónica de Bogota
Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional Argentina
Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires
Philharmonic Orchestra Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte

Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, Beirut
China National Symphony Orchestra, Beijing
Orquesta Estable del Teatro Cólon, Buenos Aires
Guayacuil Symphony Orchestra, Ecuador
Orquesta Sinfónica de la Provincia de Rio Negro, Argentina

Orquesta Sinfonica Provincial de Santa Fe, Argentina
Ho Chi Minh City Ballet and Opera Orchestra, Vietnam
Orquesta Filarmonica de Chile
Izmir State Symphony Orchestra, Turkey
Colombia National Symphony Orchestra

Orquesta Filarmonica de Mendoza, Argentina
National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba
Orquesta de Cámera de Chile
Arequipa Symphony Orchestra, Peru
National Symphony Orchestra of Paraguay

Orchestre Musique des Lumières
Academia Stefano Tempia. Torino
Orquesta Sinfónica Bahia Blanca - Argentina
National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico
Melos Symphony Orchestra – Torino (Italy)

Uruguay National Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Orchestra Entre Rios – Paraná (Argentina)
Orquesta Clasica USACH – Santiago (Chile)
Orquesta Sinfónica de Puebla – México
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile

La Serena Symphony Orchestra - Chile

Academic Orchestras
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Gennevilliers
Orchestra „La Consorterie“ – Aosta
Swiss Youth Chamber Orchestra
Landesjugend-Sinfonieorchester des Saarlandes
Orchestra of de Volgograd Music-Academy, Russia

Orquesta Filarmonica Juvenil de Guayaquil, Ecuador
National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay
Sinfonia por el Perú, Lima
Orchestra of the Royal College of Music, London
Orchestre de l’HEMU (Haute Ecole de Musique) – Lausanne, Switzerland

Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad Autonoma Aguascalientes, México
Orchestra of the China Conservatory of Music, Beijing
Orquesta Fest&Arts – Fundacion Zaldumvide – Quito, Ecuador
Orquesta de la Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador
Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Riobamba - Ecuador

Orquesta Academica del Teatro Colon – Buenos Aires
Orquesta Sinfonía de la UDLAP - (Univ. de las Americas - Puebla) - Mexico
Orquesta Academica Universidad Cattolica de Chile - Santiago
Orquesta de Cámara Universidad Cattolica de Chile - Santiago

Youth Orchestras
Orchestre des Jeunes – Fribourg, Switzerland