Nathanaël Iselin

Nathanaël Iselin is a young French conductor currently living in Scandinavia. He is the assistant conductor of the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra in Denmark and is currently holding the position of Conductor in Residence at the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

In the 2021-2022 season, Nathanaël has made his debuts with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (Bruckner 3rd Symphony), the Orchestre National de Montpellier (Mozart 31st Symphony), as well as the Lahti Symphony Orchestra (Ravel Ma Mère l'Oye). In May and June 2021 he conducted the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra , in pieces such as Sibelius 2nd symphony, Ravel Piano Concerto in G, and Prokofiev 1st Piano Concerto. These concerts were followed by an immediate reinvitation and an appointment as Assistant Conductor of the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra for the 2021/2022 season. In 2019 he conducted the Copenhagen Philharmonic in a performance for Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark.

On the lyrical scene, Nathanaël regularly conducts at Opera Hedeland, Denmark, where he led fully-staged youth audience productions of Carmen and Rigoletto. He will return in 2022 to conduct Peter Heise's opera Drot og Marsk. He also worked at the Bern Opera, Switzerland, as a second conductor and assistant for a production of Smetana's The Bartered Bride.

Nathanaël Iselin has studied orchestra conducting in four of the most prestigious music universities in Europe : the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, the Hochschule der Künste in Zürich and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Whilst a student he has been mentored by such renowned conductors as Mariss Jansons, Fabio Luisi, Susanna Mälkki, Sakari Oramo, Michael Schønwandt, Giordano Bellincampi, Johannes Schlaefli, Thomas Søndergård, Alexander Vedernikov and Simone Young. During his education he conducted such orchestras as the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, on a varied repertoire including symphonies and concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, contemporary music and operatic repertoire.