Lionel Bringuier becomes music director in Liège
Lionel Bringuier, the former chief conductor of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, has been appointed music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. He succeeds Gergely Madaras in this position.
Bringuier was Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich from 2014 to 2018. He has also held conducting positions with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León in Valladolid, the Orchestre de Bretagne and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. Bringuier studied cello in Paris and conducting with Zsolt Nagy. In 2005, he won the competition for young conductors in Besançon.
Founded in 1960, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (OPRL) is the only professional symphony orchestra in the French-speaking part of Belgium. Since its foundation, it has commissioned numerous Belgian and international composers and has been commissioned to premiere various works. It can look back on more than 130 world premieres.
