ROTEM NIR CONDUCTOR Born in Israel, Rotem Nir is the Conductor in Residence and Head of Music at the Israeli Opera and the Assistant Musical Director at the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, and was Assistant Conductor at the Israel Chamber Orchestra. He conducted most Israeli orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, the Raanana Symphonette, the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Contemporary Players and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. Rotem Nir participated in the young conductors program of the Verbier Festival where he worked with the festival orchestra and the conductors Lahav Shani and Christoph Eschenbach. He conducted Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno with the Georgisches Kammerorchester in Ingolstadt. Recently, he led the summer conference of the National Youth Wind Orchestra. He won the Golden Baton conducting competition of the Buchmann Mehta School of Music and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, and the New Conductors competition of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. He studied at the Ness Ziona Conservatory and at the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts. He was an Outstanding Musician in the IDF as an arranger for string quartets, and studied conducting with Yoav Talmi and bassoon with Daniel Mazaki at the BuchmannMehta School of Music. He participated in masterclasses presented by Osmo Vanska and Ivan Fischer. At the Israeli Opera he conducted Verdi’s La Traviata. In the summer of 2024 Rotem will be an Assistant Conductor to Timur Zangiev at the Salzburg Festival production of Prokofiev's opera The Gambler.
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