A cellist and conductor born in Nice in 1986, Lionel Bringuier entered the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in 2000, graduating four years later.
He turned to conducting, winning first prize at the Besançon International
Competition in 2005, before being hired by Esa-Pekka Salonen as assistant
conductor at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and then resident conductor until
2013. Between 2009 and 2012, he was Music Director of the Castilla y Leon
Symphony Orchestra in Valladolid, then conducted the Orchestre de Bretagne and,
from 2014, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. He has ma...