Appreciated by audiences and music experts as a versatile artistic personality, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian’s career as a conductor has led him from success to success since he shifted his focus to the podium in the 2022/23 season.
In the current season Tjeknavorian will debut as a conductor with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Orchestre National d’Ile de France, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchester Symphonique de Mulhouse and the Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein. Elsewhere this season he will return to the Vienna Symphony after his highly successful debut there in the 2022/23 season, alongside return engagements with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, the Grazer Philharmoniker, and the Philharmonie Zuidnederland.
Some of the highlights of Tjeknavorian’s 2022/23 season included his highly successful conducting debuts with the Filarmonica della Scala, the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Gürzenich Orchester Cologne, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and Madrid’s Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE. Additionally, he conducted a celebrated semi-staged production of Die Fledermaus in the Musikverein Graz with Vienna’s ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as Beethoven’s C Major Mass with the Wiener Kammerorchester and the Wiener Singakademie in Vienna’s famed Konzerthaus.
With his career as a conductor, Tjeknavorian builds on his previous work as a violinist. Since his success at the International Sibelius Competition in 2015, Tjeknavorian has given concerts in the most internationally renowned halls and has worked together with the greatest musicians of our time. He will continue to give occasional chamber music performances with close colleagues, for instance during the 2023/24 season at Munich's Prinzregententheater, as well as in Austria at the Schubertiade and the Stiftskonzerte in St. Florian.
As part of his residency at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in the summer of 2022, Tjeknavorian conducted the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Potsdam Chamber Academy. Further past conducting engagements of note include the Münchner Symphoniker, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, the Tonkünstler-Orchester, and the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento.
As an OPUS Klassik award winner, Tjeknavorian has released several albums: after a highly acclaimed solo album and recordings of the violin concertos by Brahms and Sibelius, his debut album as a conductor was released in 2021, in which he conducted the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" a.o. He is also a passionate music communicator and as such has been hosting his own monthly radio show "Der Klassik-Tjek" on Radio Klassik Stephansdom since 2017, in which he talks to well-known personalities from a wide variety of fields about their shared passion for classical music.
Tjeknavorian was born in Vienna in 1995 into a family of musicians and began his musical education at the age of five. While he was studying the violin, he was introduced to conducting from an early age by his father, composer and conductor Loris Tjeknavorian.
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