Versatility, musicality and technical precision, but above all naturalness and contagious passion are the trademarks of conductor Ariane Matiakh. As the daughter of two of two opera singers, she grew up in an extremely musical environment and learned the piano the piano at an early age.
She studied orchestral conducting in Vienna, where she also worked under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Adam Fischer in the renowned Arnold Schönberg Choir.
During her extensive training, she received formative artistic impulses from Leopold Hager and Seiji Ozawa.
She gained her first operatic experience as an assistant at the Opéra et Orchestre de Montpellier, where she worked intensively with James Conlon, Armin Jordan, Emmanuel Krivine and Alain
Altinoglu, among others. In recent years she has made guest appearances, among others, for a production of "La Bohème" at the Royal Opera House in London, and a return invitation took her to the Opéra du to the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg with a new production of "Samson et Dalila," and in the summer of 2022, she conducted Bizet's "Carmen" in a production by Calixto Bieito at the Norske Opera in Oslo.
As a guest conductor, she is invited by leading orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Vienna the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic Dresden Philharmonic, the symphony orchestras of the WDR, hr and MDR, the Sinfonieorchester
Basel, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and has followed invitations to the Komische Oper Berlin, the Royal Opera House Stockholm, the Royal Opera Royal Opera London, to Amsterdam, Gothenburg, Oslo, Graz, Nice, Strasbourg and Hamburg.
In 2009 she was selected as "Discovery of the Year" for France's most important music prize "Révélation des Victoires de la musique". Ariane Matiakh's repertoire today ranges from numerous operas to a broad spectrum of symphonic works and ballets.
of symphonic works and ballets from the music of the baroque period to contemporary compositions. Last season she conducted three world premieres, among others: A violin concerto by Bryce Dessner, performed by Pekka Kuusisto and the hr-Sinfonieorchester, "Les Eclairs" by Philippe Hersant at the Opéra Comique de Paris and the harp concerto by Sally Beamish at the PROMS in London, together with the BBC Orchestra Wales and
Anneleen Lenaerts.
The versatility and joy of musical discoveries is also reflected in her discography. reflects. Recordings of Johanna Doderer's works have been made for the Capriccio label, a CD with music by Francis Poulenc and Jean Françaix, as well as a recording of the two piano concertos by with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, which was nominated for a 2018 Grammy Award. A further collaboration with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin resulted in a CD with works by Harald Genzmer, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Richard Strauss. On the Berlin Classic also released a recording of piano concertos by Clara Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven.
van Beethoven, recorded by Ragna Schirmer and the Staatskapelle Halle.
At the beginning of the 2022/23 season, Ariane Matiakh will take up her post as principal conductor of the of the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, which she will take on tour in Reutlingen as well as in She will also accompany the orchestra on guest tours to Stuttgart, Vienna and Aschaffenburg, among others. For her first season season, Ariane Matiakh was able to win soloists such as Lawrence Power, Alexander Melnikov and the horn player Christoph Ess and introduces young talents such as the pianist Roman Borisov.
In the upcoming 2022/23 season, Ariane Matiakh will follow re-invitations from, among others, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Orchestre de Paris, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, which will accompany her on a concert tour with Duruflé's Requiem and then open the season in Bordeaux. Further highlights of the season will be the repeated with the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg for a new production of "La voix humaine" (directed by humaine" (director - Katie Mitchell) and debuts with, among others, the Orchestre Métropolitaine in Montréal and the National Theater Orchestra Mannheim.
In recognition of her services to the musical life in France and to French culture Ariane Matiakh was awarded the honorary title of "Chevalier de l'Ordre" by the French Ministry of Culture in 2014.
the honorary title of "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" in 2014 and "Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" in 2022.
et des Lettres" in 2022