Emmanuel Krivine, Music Director

 
„Emmanuel Krivine is one of today’s greatest conductors and is never, under any circumstances, to be missed." (The Guardian/London)

 

The Luxembourg Philharmonic’s Music Director Emmanuel Krivine is of Russian and Polish descent and showed at a very young age his great interest for the organ and symphonic music. He started his musical career as a violonist, winning the Prix du Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 16 and earning many other prestigious awards as a student of Henryk Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin whilst at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth.

After his meeting with Karl Böhm in Salzburg in 1965, Emmanuel Krivine’s career took a decisive turn in which he decided to trade in his bow for a baton. From 1976 to 1983, he became the permanent guest director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France. From 1987 to 2000 he held the posts of Musical Director with the Orchestre National de Lyon and, for seven years, with l’Orchestre Français des Jeunes (French National Youth Orchestra), to which, in 2001, he renewed his commitment until 2004.

 

Emmanuel Krivine has also increased the number of tours and concerts with leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Orchestre National de France, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, NHK Tokyo, the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra, not forgetting, among others, the Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Montreal orchestras and the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.

 
Emmanuel Krivine has agreed to become the principal conductor of an orchestra which he has helped create, La Chambre Philharmonique. Its founders, a group of musicians from all corners of Europe, have dedicated themselves to researching and interpreting the classical and romantic repertoire up to the present day, using instruments that are adapted to both composition and period.

 
As Principal Guest Conductor since 2001 Emmanuel Krivine built a strong relationship with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2006 he signed a contract as the Orchestra’s Music Director.