Victor Aviat (born 1982) is a French
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concert review by Alan Coady, ''Bachtrack
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History
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conductor
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of classical music and opera.
Biography
Born in
Montpellier
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,
["Salzbourg : fier de la prestation de Victor Aviat"]
review, 5 March 2014, L'agglorieuse (in French) Aviat studied oboe, piano and conducting in Paris, Zürich (
Zurich University of the Arts) and Geneva.
He is an orchestra musician, works regularly as principal oboe with the
Zürich Opera House, the
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
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, the
Budapest Festival Orchestra, the
Orchestra Mozart among others.
After further study, Aviat began a career as a conductor parallel to his activities and has led performances with the
Orchestre national de Lille, the
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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and others.
In the season 2015/16, Aviat conducted a new production of
Offenbach's operetta
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''
Le roi Carotte
''Le roi Carotte'' (''King Carrot'') is a 4-act opéra- bouffe-féerie with music by Jacques Offenbach and libretto by Victorien Sardou, after E. T. A. Hoffmann. The libretto, written before the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, lampooned ...
'' at the
Opéra de Lyon which was broadcast on radio and television and was widely praised. This production of ''Le roi Carotte'' under the musical direction of Aviat won "Best Rediscovered Work" in the
International Opera Awards
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Origins
The International Opera Awards was founded in 2013 by Harry Hyman, a UK businessman, philanthropist and supporter of opera, and ...
2016. From 2016 to 2018 Aviat was the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Leverhulme Young Conductor in Association of the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. More recently Aviat showed interests in composition. His first orchestral piece has been performed by
Orchestre National de France in December 2019.
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1982 births
Living people
Musicians from Montpellier
Zurich University of the Arts alumni
French male conductors (music)
French classical oboists
21st-century French conductors (music)
21st-century French male musicians