| Biography | With only 25 years Lorenzo Viotti, now 26, was already winner of the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Awards 2015, of the Cadaqués International Conducting Competition and of the MDR Conducting Competition.
Born in Lausanne he has both the Swiss and the French nationality and grew up in an Italian-French family of musicians. He studied piano, singing and percussion in Lyon and Vienna, specialized as percussion player and attended orchestral conducting classes under Professor Georg Mark in Vienna where at the same time he performed as percussionist in various major orchestras, among others the Wiener Philharmoniker.
While receiving many invitations after the MDR Conducting Competition in Leipzig in 2013 he continued his conducting studies with Nicolás Pasquet from the end of 2013 until the beginning of 2015 at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar.
His success at the Cadaqués Conducting Competition led to engagements with important international orchestras: Orchesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lille. Furthermore, he conducted the Tokyo Symphony and the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestras, Orchestre National de Paris, Bamberger Symphoniker, Bremer Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
His highly successful performance in LA BELLE HELENE at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in May 2015 was followed by Rossinis LA CAMBIALE DI MATROMONIO in September 2015 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. From December 2015 until February 2016 he conducted a CARMEN series in Klagenfurt. More operas will follow.
In January 2016 he was invited for the first time by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia in La Coruña and in February by the Orquestra Simfónica de Barcelona. Two highly successful last minute engagements in 2016 marked also his debut with both orchestras: at the end of Januay Lorenzo Viotti conducted three concerts with the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the place of Franz Welser-Möst and at the end of May he stepped in for Myung-Whun Chung conducting two concerts with the Wiener Symphoniker in Vienna.
Lorenzo Viotti assisted renowned conductors such as Mariss Jansons (with the Concertgebouw Amsterdam), Bernard Haitink (with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and Georges Prêtre. (June 2017) |