Emmanuel Krivine

Emmanuel Krivine is respected as one of the most distinguished conductors of the day whose elegant and colourful interpretations have made him an absolute favourite. Krivine has held many important positions in his home country France and is regarded as one of the foremost French musicians today. He is a passionate educator, who regularly conducts orchestras of young musicians, and in 2004 he created a period-instrument ensemble in Paris, La Chambre Philharmonique.

Emmanuel Krivine has conducted the world’s finest orchestras, these count: the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In North America, he has conducted the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston Symphony, National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he made a triumphant debut in 2016/17 and returns in 2017/18. In Australia he has worked with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony orchestras, and in Asia with the NHK Symphony and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony orchestra where he will also return this season. From 2006 to 2014, Krivine was Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and 2015/16 took up the post of Principal Guest Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

During the 2017/18 season, Krivine and the Orchestre National de France mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy in 2018 and perform in numerous concerts around France and Switzerland.

Born in Grenoble, France, half Russian and half polish, Emmanuel Krivine began his career as a violinist at a young age. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France from 1976 until 1983, and then became Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon from 1987 until 2000. He also served as Music Director of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes for eleven years until  2004, and more recently as Principal Guest Conductor of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.