Nir
Kabaretti has established in recent years an outstanding international
reputation of both symphonic and operatic repertoire. In 2002,
Kabaretti was appointed Principal Conductor of the Raanana Symphonette
Orchestra in Israel and in 2003, its Music Director until 2008.
In 2006 he was chosen to be the music director of the Santa Barbara
Symphony in California and in 2014 he has been appointed Music Director
of the South West Florida Symphony.
Among his recognitions, Kabaretti was awarded the
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Young Conductors, won the
1993 Forum Junger Künstler Conducting Competition in Vienna and in
1994 was a finalist in the International Competition for Conductors in
Douai, France.
Upon graduation from the prestigious University of Music and
Performing Arts in Vienna, he began working as Coach and Chorus Master
at the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival, followed by
positions as assistant to the Music Director at the Teatro Real in
Madrid and conductor and personal assistant to Zubin Mehta at Teatro
del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy.
Nir Kabaretti conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
L'Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tokyo Philharmonic
Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, Orquestre National du
Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
“La Verdi”, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrad
Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony
Orchestra of Rishon Le Tzion, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber
Orchestra, Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester, La
Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, La Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria
and the Bochumer Symphoniker.
His operatic experience includes productions at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Macbeth, Il Trovatore, Gianni Schicchi, Il Viaggio a Rheims), Teatro Real in Madrid (La Cenerentola, Die Walküre), The Israeli Opera ( Fidelio, Manon Lescaut ), Opéra de Lausanne (Nino Rota's Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze, Die Fledermaus) and The New National Theatre in Tokyo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia ). He conducted The Diary of Anne Frank,
a guest production of the Vienna State Opera performed at both the
Bregenz Festival and Expo 2000 in Hanover. In 2005 maestro Kabaretti
led Teatro San Carlo di Napoli on its first tour to Japan conducting Il Trovatore
both in Kyoto and Tokyo. During 2004-05, Kabaretti made his
début at Teatro alla Scala di Milano with Tchaikowsky´s The Nutcracker, and was invited again in 2007 for a ballet production of Mendelssohn's Midsummer night's Dream (broadcasted by Italian television RAI).
Some of Kabaretti's engagements for the past seasons include Carmen at the Granada Theatre (California), a production of Lohengrin at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Romeo and Juliet, a Gala for Roland Petit, The Nutcracker, Cinderella and Don Quixote at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and Swan Lake and The Nutcracker at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence; Falstaff in Lausanne, Nabucco and Il barbiere di Siviglia in Avenches, Fidelio in New York and the closing concert of the Mittelfest Festival in Cividale. Recently Mr Kabaretti conducted The Swan Lake at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; a series of concerts in Fort Meyers and in Liege with the Orchestre Philarmonique and on tour in Belgium, then in Santa Barbara, Michigan and Bloomington; Die Fledermaus in Bari and concerts in Parma with the Toscanini Orchestra.
Nir Kabaretti speaks fluently Hebrew, English, Italian, German and Spanish.
May 2019