Emmanuel Tjeknavorian

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian has been named the next Music Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, a position he will take up in the 2024/25 season. 

In the 2023/24 season, he made his conducting debuts with the Dresden Philharmonic, the Danish DR Symfoniorkestret, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Philharmonie Zuidnederland, and the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he received re-invitations, for example, from the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano and the Vienna and Graz Symphony Orchestras.

In previous seasons, he made conducting debuts with the Filarmonica della Scala, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Gürzenich Orchester Köln, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE, as well as the Bruckner Orchester Linz, and he conducted the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien in a concert performance of Johann Strauss' operetta "Die Fledermaus" at the Grazer Musikverein.

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. During the current academic year, he serves as a teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

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