Nir Kabaretti

Who is Nir Kabaretti?

Nir Kabaretti is an Israeli orchestra conductor.

Kabaretti is Music Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony in California since 2006 and continues to collaborate with some of the world’s most renowned orchestras, opera houses and soloists such as Itzhak Perlman and Lang Lang.

Upon graduation from the prestigious University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Kabaretti was appointed chorus master of the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. He served as assistant to the music director of Teatro Real in Madrid, and as Zubin Mehta’s personal assistant and conductor at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In 2004, Kabaretti made his Teatro alla Scala di Milano debut in Tchaikowsky’s The Nutcracker, and in 2007 he returned to La Scala for Mendelssohn’s Ballet Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Nir Kabaretti conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, Orquestre National du Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Orchestra Sinfonica “La Verdi” di Milano, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra of Rishon Le Tzion, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester, Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, Orquesta Sinfónica Metropolitana de Lisboa, Bochumer Symphoniker, among others. He was also appointed Principal Conductor of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra in Israel in 2002 and as its Music Director until 2008.