conductor
Emmanuelle Haïm
After studying piano and harpsichord, Emmanuelle Haïm decided to focus on orchestral conducting. She founded Le Concert d’Astrée in 2000, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music on period instruments. The French harpsichordist–conductor and her orchestra have worked with such legendary soloists as Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Magdalena Kožená, Rolando Villazón and Anne Sofie von Otter. The ensemble has garnered great acclaim with staged performances of operas by Monteverdi, Rameau, Handel and Mozart, and its many CD and DVD recordings.
In addition to her performances with Le Concert d’Astrée, Haïm is in high demand as a guest conductor. She has strong ties with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and has made guest appearances with such ensembles as the Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Due to the covid pandemic, her scheduled debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in April 2020 was postponed to 2024.
Emmanuelle Haïm led opera productions in Glyndebourne (Handel’s Theodora, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Zurich (Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie) and was the first female conductor to ever conduct a production at the Chicago Lyric Opera (Handel’s Giulio Cesare).
She was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, Officier des Arts et des Lettres, Officier de l’ordre national du Mérite and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music for her services to Baroque music and her musical expertise.
After studying piano and harpsichord, Emmanuelle Haïm decided to focus on orchestral conducting. She founded Le Concert d’Astrée in 2000, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music on period instruments. The French harpsichordist–conductor and her orchestra have worked with such legendary soloists as Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Magdalena Kožená, Rolando Villazón and Anne Sofie von Otter. The ensemble has garnered great acclaim with staged performances of operas by Monteverdi, Rameau, Handel and Mozart, and its many CD and DVD recordings.
In addition to her performances with Le Concert d’Astrée, Haïm is in high demand as a guest conductor. She has strong ties with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and has made guest appearances with such ensembles as the Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Due to the covid pandemic, her scheduled debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in April 2020 was postponed to 2024.
Emmanuelle Haïm led opera productions in Glyndebourne (Handel’s Theodora, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Zurich (Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie) and was the first female conductor to ever conduct a production at the Chicago Lyric Opera (Handel’s Giulio Cesare).
She was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, Officier des Arts et des Lettres, Officier de l’ordre national du Mérite and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music for her services to Baroque music and her musical expertise.
After studying piano and harpsichord, Emmanuelle Haïm decided to focus on orchestral conducting. She founded Le Concert d’Astrée in 2000, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music on period instruments. The French harpsichordist–conductor and her orchestra have worked with such legendary soloists as Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Magdalena Kožená, Rolando Villazón and Anne Sofie von Otter. The ensemble has garnered great acclaim with staged performances of operas by Monteverdi, Rameau, Handel and Mozart, and its many CD and DVD recordings.
In addition to her performances with Le Concert d’Astrée, Haïm is in high demand as a guest conductor. She has strong ties with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and has made guest appearances with such ensembles as the Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Due to the covid pandemic, her scheduled debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in April 2020 was postponed to 2024.
Emmanuelle Haïm led opera productions in Glyndebourne (Handel’s Theodora, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Zurich (Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie) and was the first female conductor to ever conduct a production at the Chicago Lyric Opera (Handel’s Giulio Cesare).
She was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, Officier des Arts et des Lettres, Officier de l’ordre national du Mérite and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music for her services to Baroque music and her musical expertise.