Emmanuel Tjeknavorian
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano - Shostakovich
Tjeknavorian's glowing Shostakovich
From the first bars, Tjeknavorian demonstrated an extraordinary command of the complex score, underscoring every phrase, every bar, I would even say every note, with a clear and effective gesture. Everything pulsed and trembled between clashing and folding in a sharp and compact overall vision, carved in marble.
Rivista Musica (January 20, 2025)Kölner Stadt Anzeiger (March 16, 2025)Season 25/26 and Highlights
GEORGE ENESCU FESTIVAL
ANTWERP SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Brahms – Violin Concerto
Brahms – Symphony No. 4
Sep 9
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
OPENING CONCERT
Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5
Sep 14
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
GUEST PERFORMANCE IN PAVIA
Bizet – Carmen Suite
Berio/de Falla – Seven popular Spanish songs
de Falla – El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No. 2
Ravel – Bolero
Sep 21
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ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Mahler – Symphony No. 5
Oct 3/5
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Beethoven - The Creatures of Prometheus
Glass – Double Concerto for Two Pianos
Brahms – Symphony No. 2
Oct 10/12
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Beethoven — Egmont Overture, Beethoven — Violin Concerto, Beethoven — Symphony No. 7.
Oct 16/18/19
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE DELLA RAITORINO
Wagner – Prelude to Lohengrin
Mahler, A. – Sieben Lieder
Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet Suite
Nov 20/21
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
Dez 29/30/31, Jan 1
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Tour in Luzern und Chiasso
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
Jan 2/3/4
ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE DE MONTE-CARLO
Khachaturian – Suite from Gayane
Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet
Borodin – Polovtsian Dances
Jan 11
MUSIKVEREIN GRAZ
YOUTH ORCHESTRA ALPE ADRIA
J. Strauss – Wein, Weib und Gesang
Paganini – Violin Concerto No. 2
Brahms – Symphony No. 1
Jan 19/20
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2
Beethoven – Symphony No. 7
Jan 30, Feb 1
MALMÖ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Khachaturian – Suite from Gayane
Kodály – Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven – Coriolan Overture
Beethoven – Symphony No. 4
Feb 12
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Khachaturian – Sabre Dance and other selections from Gayane
Kodály – Concerto for Orchestra
de Falla – El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No. 2
Stravinsky – Firebird Suite (1919 version)
Feb 20/22
DRESDNER PHILHARMONIE
Pejačević – Overture for Large Orchestra in D Minor
Mahler – Sieben Lieder (Alma Mahler)
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Feb 27/28, März 1
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Bernstein – Candide Overture
Barber – Violin Concerto
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5
März 13/15
ORCHESTRA DELLA TOSCANA
Sibelius – The Death of Melisande
Haydn – Cello Concerto in D Major
Beethoven – Symphony No. 4
März 20/21
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5
März 27/29
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem
Apr 1/2
ROYAL STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Pejačević – Overture for Large Orchestra in D
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Apr 15/16
MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
Verdi – Un ballo in maschera
Mai 12/15/17/22/24
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique
Mai 21/23
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
GASTSPIEL ÖSTERREICH
Mai 27/28/29 (Salzburg), Juni 1/2 (Graz)
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Beethoven – Symphony No. 1
Schubert – Symphony in C Major "The Great"
Juni 14
Biography
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian has been Music Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano since September 2024. In his first season, he conducted the orchestra in its first international appearance under his artistic direction at the Rheingau Music Festival and later at the KKL Luzern. Alongside his work in Milan, he made his highly acclaimed US debut with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and this summer he will conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time. Further guest appearances this season will take him to the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai Torino, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Graz Philharmonic, and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. He will also make his operatic debut with Un Ballo in Maschera at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and with Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, and will appear at the Ravello Festival.
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In recent seasons, he has conducted a.o. the Filarmonica della Scala, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, Bremer Philharmoniker, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, DR Symfoniorkestret Copenhagen, Dresdner Philharmonie, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Orchestra della Toscana, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE. He also led the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of Johann Strauss’ operetta Die Fledermaus at the Musikverein Graz.
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 a winner of the Abbiati Prize and an OPUS Klassik Award, and has released several recordings as a violinist and conductor. Since 2017, he has hosted the monthly radio show "Der Klassik-Tjek" on Vienna's Radio Klassik Stephansdom. During the show, he discusses classical music with well-known personalities from other fields and demonstrates his passion for finding ways to make music accessible to a wider audience. He is also involved in numerous projects promoting young musicians. For several years, he has maintained a close collaboration with the German String Philharmonic, the ensemble of German music schools.
2025/26
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