Arnaud Arbet
Conductor and Composer
Founder of Le Seuil Musical
Arnaud Arbet is one of the most sought-after conductors of his generation for modern and contemporary music and for opera.
In 2023, he conducted Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann at the Norrlandsoperan in Umeå, in Sweden. This production was broadcast on the national Swedish television.
In the same year, he conducted the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre at the prestigious Enescu Festival in Bucharest.
He also conducted the inaugural concert of the Tokyo Paris Ensemble Orchestra at Tokyo's Suntory Hall (Blue Rose Hall).
In 2022, he founded the ensemble Le Seuil Musical (the musical threshold), dedicated to the music of the first half of the 20th century. The ensemble has performed in Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Bamberg, Grenoble and Aubervilliers.
Arnaud Arbet regularly conducts at the Opera of Cologne : Die Eroberung von Mexico by Rihm, Die Soldaten by Zimmermann (co-conductor), Mare Nostrum by Kagel, La Scuola de’ Gelosi by Salieri and Carmen by Bizet.
In 2020, he created Philipp Maintz’s clamitationes colonienses with the Gürzenich Orchester in the Philharmonie of Cologne.
Between 2014 and 2018, Arnaud Arbet was engaged by the Teatro alla Scala of Milan as personal assistant of György Kurtág for the opera Fin de partie.
In 2018 and 2021, he was invited by the festival Milano Musica to conduct the Ensemble Bernasconi in a at La Scala (Sala Toscanini) and Mare Nostrum by Kagel in the Hangar Bicocca.
Arnaud Arbet started his career as a rehearsal pianist at the Atelier Lyrique of the Paris’ National Opera between 2007 and 2009. Between 2010 and 2013, he was engaged by Gerard Mortier at the Teatro Real of Madrid as a rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor where he worked with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Semyon Bychkov, Péter Eötvös, Ingo Metzmacher, Sylvain Cambreling and Alejo Pérez. At the Teatro Real, he conducted his first concerts with the Symphony Orchestra of Madrid.
