Debut at Bucharest National Opera !
Sunday April 5th 2026, 18:30
Mozart : Le Nozze di Figaro
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BREAKING NEWS! Arnaud Arbet signs with Laurent Delage artists!
Starting January 2026, Arnaud Arbet will be represented worldwide by agent Laurent Delage !
We are excited about working together and look forward to a fruitful collaboration !
Delage Artists
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Kurtág’s Fin de partie triumphs at the Enescu Festival!
7 September 2025 — The Romanian premiere of Fin de partie, featuring the four singers from the Milan world premiere and the Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, was a resounding success.
Both press and audience unanimously praised the concert version of Kurtág’s opera at the Romanian Athenaeum.
Arnaud Arbet’s key role in the opera’s creation was highlighted in a joint interview with György Kurtág and in a feature published in the Festival magazine.
Photo Andrada Pavel
Joint interview with György Kurtág and Arnaud Arbet (Budapest, April 2025; Paradigma Film for the George Enescu International Festival).
Interview by Irina Vasilescu for the George Enescu International Festival magazine.
PRESS
« The Enescu Festival had done well to secure the services of Arbet, who acted as the composer’s musical assistant for four years prior during the composition of Fin de partie. (…) He surely knows the piece better than anyone save Kurtág himself, and (after a week of rehearsal) he coaxed the local musicians of the George Enescu Philharmonic into playing of palpable commitment. »
bachtrack, 9.9.2025
« In György Kurtág’s opera ‘Fin de Partie’, (…) the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra under Arnaud Arbet sounds far more vital and lush, and thus overall more attuned to the difficult opus than the Staatskapelle Berlin, which played with analytically dry beauty at the premiere at the Lindenoper in winter 2025. »
nmz, 10.9.2025
« The original cast was also invited, exceptional performers who enriched this subtle musical escapade with their stage movements. A very expressive opera with a broad, colourful orchestration, harmonised with the vocal lines, with an emphasis on the stage action. (…) Therefore, we had the operatic feast we were looking for, and which we only find at the Enescu Festival (…) Conductor Arnaud Arbet, a specialist in modern and contemporary music, took to the podium. He is an old acquaintance from the 2023 edition, when he conducted Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre to great acclaim. 5 out of 5 stars ».
presshub, 17.9.2025
« The George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest, conducted by Arnaud Arbet, sounded impressive. (…) The orchestra took care of every detail down to the last millimetre. This is not surprising, because Arnaud Arbet, a composer as well as a conductor, collaborated with Kurtág as his assistant for five years on the composition of Fin de partie, and the composer himself publicly acknowledged his ability, his knowledge of opera from recent decades (he conducted Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre at the 2023 Enescu Festival with this same orchestra) and the help he had given him with Fin de partie, starting with helping him find the singers for the premiere, the same ones who sang on this occasion. »
mundoclasico, 6.10.2025
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Kurtág’s Fin de Partie at Enescu Festival September 2025
2025 September 7th 16:30
Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest
Kurtág : Fin de Partie
Hilary Summers, Nell
Frode Olsen, Hamm
Leigh Melrose, Clov
Leonardo Cortellazzi, Nagg
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Arnaud Arbet, conductor
(photo Le Grand Macabre – Enescu Festival 2023 – Andrada Pavel)
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Conductor : exciting concert calendar autumn 2024 !
2024 September 12 – 19:00
Norrlandsoperan – Umeå – Sweden
Unsuk Chin : Subito con forza
W.A. Mozart : Concerto for clarinet and orchestre K. 622
Béla Bartók : Dances of Transylvania
Igor Stravinsky : Pulcinella Suite
Norrlandsoperan Symphony Orchestra
Arnaud Arbet, conductor
Christoffer Sundqvist, clarinet
2024 October 23 – 19:00
2024 October 24 – 19:00
Romanian Atheneum – Bucharest – Romania
Gabriel Fauré : Pavane (version with choir)
Camille Saint-Saëns : First Concerto for piano and orchestra
Claude Debussy : Nocturnes
Maurice Ravel : Boléro
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Arnaud Arbet, conductor
David Kadouch, piano
2024 December 17 – 19:00
Librairie 7L – Paris – France
Memphis, the Post-modernism and Ligeti
Webern : Quartet for violin, clarinet, tenor saxophone and piano op. 22
Ligeti : Le Grand Macabre, excerpts (at the piano)
Discussion with Jean-Louis Gaillemin
Le Seuil Musical
Arnaud Arbet, conductor
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Composer : 3 WORLD PREMIERES in May 2024 !
Wednesday 8th of May 2024 – 19:00
Romanian Atheneum – Bucharest
World premiere of the Nonsense Songs (2023, texts by Edward Lear) N°1 and 3
Choir of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Arnaud Arbet
Friday 24th of May 2024 – 18:00
Atelier Lyrique of Tourcoing – France
World premiere of 2 song cycles :
– La Corbeille de fruits for baritone and piano (2019, texts by Rabindranath Tagore)
– 5 Fables de La Fontaine, divertissement for soprano, baritone and orchestra (2017), in the piano reduction
Ensemble Le Seuil Musical
Alexandra Untiedt, soprano
Vincent le Texier, baritone
Kyoko Nojima, piano
Arnaud Arbet, presentation
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March 2024 : 4x Le Seuil Musical in France!
Monday March 4, 10:00 : University of Musicology of Grenoble
Arnaud Arbet meets the students and gives a lecture about « Schönberg and crossing the musical thresholds at the beginning of 20th century »
Wednesday March 6, 19:30 : Conservatoire CRR of Aubervilliers
Concert of the ensemble Le Seuil Musical. Program Schönberg, Webern, Berg, Debussy.
At 18:30 : presentation of Schönberg’s First Chamber Symphony op. 9 (1906) by Jean-François Boukobza
Thursday March 7, 19:30 : Musée en Musique of Grenoble
Concert of the ensemble Le Seuil Musical. Same program as in Aubervilliers. Followed by a discussion with the public
Tuesday March 12, 19:00 : Librairie 7L of Chanel in Paris
Concert of the ensemble : Schönberg’s First Chamber Symphony. Followed by a discussion with the gallery owner Alexandre Devals about crossing the thresholds in music and in visual arts at the beginning of 20th century
More infos on leseuilmusical.com
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PRESS LE GRAND MACABRE – Enescu Festival 17.9.2023
« The young conductor Arnaud Arbet was the soul of the evening, applauded by everyone, including the Philharmonic members, and effectively adored by the choir. And all this was good and all this means a great success. » despreopera, 17.9.2023
« The conductor, Arnaud Arbet, conducted the whole ensemble brilliantly. The prolonged applause at the end was well deserved. » hotnews, 21.9.2023
« I am surprised, and it shows me, not for the first time, that Romanian artists, under the right guidance and in the right context, can live up to the score: it is sung with commitment and spirit, with seriousness and vitality. All of this makes for an artistic experience that is hard to match, crowned at the Athenaeum with standing ovations, in an uninterrupted roar of applause for several minutes. » scena9, 29.9.2023
« This Sunday-afternoon concert performance kept me listening, and sometimes watching, the music strong and unpredictable enough to be sufficient on its own terms, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, entering enthusiastically and precisely into Ligeti’s inimitable and challenging demands conducted by the unflappable and baton-less Arnaud Arbet. » colinscolumn, 17.9.2023
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Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Umeå, Sweden
Broadcast on Swedish National Television
Sat. 21st of October 2023 at 20:00 on SVT2 !
And on the web, from October 20 to November 19
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