Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Biography

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a Canadian conductor and pianist born on March 6, 1975, in Montreal. He began studying piano at age five and became a conductor at 10, starting at the Conservatoire de Musique in Montreal at 12. At 19, he followed Carlo Maria Giulini and later became music director of the Chœur polyphonique de Montréal in 1994, a position he still holds today.