From 1998 to 2002, Nézet-Séguin was chorus master, assistant conductor and music adviser of the Opéra de Montréal.
He considers Charles Dutoit as his first inspiration as a child and Carlo Maria Giulini as his master. In 1995, he founded his own professional orchestral and vocal ensemble, La Chapelle de Montréal, with whom he performed two to four concerts a year until 2002.
He became the musical director of the Chœur polyphonique de Montréal in 1994 and obtained the same post at Choeur de Laval in 1995. He also studied choral conducting with Joseph Flummerfelt at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and did many master classes with renowned conductors ( George Benjamin, Roberto Carnevale, Daniele Gatti).Īt 19, he met and was invited to follow Carlo Maria Giulini in rehearsals and concerts for more than a year. In the meantime, he was admitted to Anisia Campos's piano class, at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec where he earned five first prizes in piano and in four related musical subjects. Nézet-Séguin studied successively at St-Isaac-Jogues Primary School, at Collège Mont-Saint-Louis Secondary School and at Bois-de-Boulogne College. He began to study piano at age five, with Jeanne-d'Arc Lebrun-Lussier, and decided to become an orchestra conductor at age ten. Séguin, PhD, a university professor, and Claudine Nézet, M.A., a university lecturer and coordinator. Nézet-Séguin was born in Montreal on 6 March 1975 to two specialists in education, Serge P.
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