Emmanuel Tjeknavorian

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian is the current Music Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, after having been appointed to the position in February 2024.

Alongside his work in Milan, in the 2024/25 season Tjeknavorian will make his conducting debuts with the SWR Symphonieorchester, the Bremer Philharmoniker, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, and the Antwerp Symphony. This season he will also return to lead concerts with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln and the Grazer Philharmoniker. With the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano he will appear in Lucerne’s KKL, and he will conduct Ensemble Relefektor in a special concert at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

In previous seasons, he has appeared as a conductor with the Filarmonica della Scala, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Copenhagen’s DR Symfoniorkestret, Frankfurt’s hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Orchestra della Toscana and the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE. Additionally, he has conducted the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien in a concert performance of Johann Strauss' operetta "Die Fledermaus" at the Grazer Musikverein. In summer 2024 Tjeknavorian appeared at the Rheingau Musik Festival with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, marking the orchestra’s first international appearance with its new music director.

Prior to embarking on his career as a conductor, Tjeknavorian made a name for himself internationally as a solo violinist, having performed in the world’s most renowned concert halls alongside many of the leading musicians of our time. He plays a violin by Antonio Stradivari (Cremona 1698), on generous loan from a patron of the Beare’s International Violin Society.

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian is an OPUS Klassik award winner and has released several recordings as both a violinist and a conductor. Since 2017, he has hosted a monthly radio show, "Der Klassik-Tjek,” in Vienna on Radio Klassik Stephansdom. As part of the show he discusses classical music with well-known personalities from other fields, showcasing his passion for finding ways to make the music accessible to a wider audience. He is also involved in numerous projects in support of young musicians. For several years, he has had a close collaboration with the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, the top ensemble of German music schools.

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