Lionel Bringuier

Introduction

Lionel Bringuier is one of the brightest of a new generation of conductors.  With the start of the 2009/10 concert season, pianist, cellist and conductor Lionel Bringuier takes up the position of Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León in Valladolid, Spain and continues his role as Associate Conductor  to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and as  Chef associé  of the Orchestre de Bretagne.

He will conduct the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and returns as guest conductor to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.  He will also make his debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Biography

The 2010/11 season sees Lionel Bringuier continue his roles as Associate Conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and 2009/10 marked the beginning of his tenure as Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. 

Highlights among recent and future guest appearances include returns to Mostly Mozart New York, the Swedish Radio Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Helsinki Philharmonic,  as well as debut performances at the BBC Proms, with the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, Montreal Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Hamburg, the Philharmonia and the Oslo Philharmonic.

Winner of the 49th Besançon Young Conductors Competition in 2005, he was awarded the unanimous decision of the Besançon jury, the “Prix du Public” as audience favourite, as well as the top vote of the musicians of the festival orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Since his triumph, he has conducted some of the top orchestras in the world including the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra.

Born in Nice, France in 1986, Bringuier attended the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from the age of thirteen,  beginning his conducting studies in 2000 with Zsolt Nagy. He has also participated in masterclasses with Peter Eötvös and Janos Fürst. In June 2004, he obtained his diploma in cello and conducting with "Mention Très Bien à l'unanimité". Other distinctions include the “Médaille d’or à l’unanimité avec les felicitations du jury à l’Académie Prince Rainier III de Monaco”, the “médaille d’or” from the Lord Mayor of Nice as well as first prize in a competition organized by the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava. Bringuier is also a prizewinner of the Swiss Foundation Langart and the Cziffra Foundation.

Press Reviews

".... the evening belonged to Bringuier.  At a very early age, he is already going places with guest-conducting invitations from the likes of the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Dresden.  He is not flashy or fussy or, as yet, a big personality.  Instead, he seems on the podium respectful yet commanding and strikingly competent.  Thus far, he goes in for bright, dazzlingly, sensual music the orchestra played for him brilliantly. " 

LA Philharmonic

"Bringuier lifted years of grime off this masterpiece, the colours gleaming savage and serene, and the playing exemplary [he] has easy physical gestures, limber and musical, keeping extravagance only for those moments that require it"

The Independent, 25 February 2008

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Schedule

Haskolabio Concert Hall, Reykjavic
16 September 2010 19.30

Auditorio Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes, Valladolid
7 October 2010 19.30

Auditorio Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes, Valladolid
8 October 2010 19.30

Logrono, Spain
9 October 2010 20.30

Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes
15 October 2010 20.00

Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes, Valladolid
16 October 2010 20.30