Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director
Canadian-born conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin is an artist who establishes long-term relationships. He has been the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director since 2018 and Artistic Director of the company’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program since 2019. He has also served as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012 and artistic director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain—where he is now conductor for life—since 2000. With the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, he was music director from 2008 to 2018 and remains honorary conductor. From 2008 to 2014, he was principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2016, his longstanding collaboration with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe was recognized by an invitation to become its third-ever honorary member. During the 2019– 2020 and 2020–2021 seasons, he was a Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist.
In addition, he has worked with leading European ensembles, enjoying regular collaborations with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared at notable European festivals that include the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg, Berlin, and Grafenegg. Once chorus master, assistant conductor, and music advisor at the Opéra de Montréal, he has since guest conducted at the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Covent Garden, and Dutch National Opera.
He made his Met debut in 2009 with a new production of Carmen and has since returned every season, leading nearly 300 performances of 31 operas, as well as numerous concerts with the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and on tour in Europe and Asia. In August 2024, the Met announced the extension of his tenure as Music Director through the 2029–30 season. During the 2026–27 season at the Met, he leads the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo; a new production of Macbeth; revivals of Tosca, Der Rosenkavalier, and Parsifal; and concerts with the Met Orchestra and Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, including performances of Mahler’s Sixth and Eighth Symphonies as part of a historic full cycle of the composer’s symphonies presented in collaboration between the Met and Carnegie Hall.
In 2022, he was the conducting consultant for Maestro, a film by Bradley Cooper that chronicled the life of Leonard Bernstein, as well as for Happy Days, a Quebec film by Cholé Robichaud starring Sophie Desmarais in the role of a young conductor. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, his recent releases include Maestro—The Original Soundtrack and his first solo piano album, Introspection. He has been nominated for 18 Grammy Awards, winning five times, including most recently in 2025 for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for Maestro—The Original Soundtrack.
