Lionel Bringuier

Conductor
Associate Conductor

The 2010/11 season sees LIONEL BRINGUIER continue his roles as Associate Conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the 2009/10 season marked the beginning of his tenure as Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León.
 
Highlights of 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, and the Helsinki Philharmonic, as well as debut performances at the BBC Proms, with the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia, and Cleveland orchestras, the Montreal Symphony, the Munich Philharmonic, the 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 the audience’s favorite, and 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, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the 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 master classes 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, and first prize in a competition organized by the Janác?ek Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava. Bringuier is also a prizewinner of the Swiss Foundation Langart and the Cziffra Foundation.