Lionel Bringuier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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French conductor, cellist and pianist
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Place of Birth: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Lionel Bringuier
- Lionel Bringuier (born 24 September 1986, Nice, France) is a French conductor, cellist and pianist. Bringuier is the fourth child in a family of musicians, including his brother Nicolas Bringuier, a pianist.
- At age 5, Bringuier began musical studies at the Nice conservatory, where he won several first prizes.
- At age 13, in February 2000, he was admitted to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, where he continued his studies in cello and in conducting.
- His teachers there have included Philippe Muller.
- At the Conservatoire de Paris, he then began conducting studies, where his teachers included Zsolt Nagy.
- Bringuier graduated cum laude from the Conservatoire de Paris with diplomas in cello studies and conducting in June 2004.
- Bringuier has performed in a cello-piano duo with his brother Nicolas. In 2005, Bringuier became assistant conductor with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.
- That same year, he won the 49th International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors.
- In 2007, Bringuier became associate conductor of the Orchestre de Bretagne.
- In the US, Bringuier took up the post of assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2007, appointed by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
- During the subsequent music directorship of Gustavo Dudamel, Bringuier was promoted to associate conductor, and later, to resident conductor (the first person to hold this title in the orchestra's history).
- He stood down from this post after the 2012-2013 season. From 2009 to 2012, Bringuier was Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León (Valladolid, Spain).
- Bringuier first guest-conducted the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in November 2011, and returned in June 2012.
- In October 2012, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich named Bringuier as its next chief conductor and music director, as of the 2014-2015 season, with an initial contract of 4 years.
- In August 2016, the orchestra announced that Bringuier is to conclude his tenure with the Tonhalle Orchestra at the end of his current contract, at the end of the 2017-2018 season.Bringuier has made commercial recordings of music of Vincent D'Indy with the Orchestre de Bretagne for the Timpani Records label, and of music of Camille Saint-Saëns with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for the Erato label.
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