Curriculum Vitae
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MUSIC DIRECTOR of the OPERA LIMOGES
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GMD of the THEATER NORDHAUSEN, LOH-ORCHESTER SONDERSHAUSEN
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Music Director of the Academy of the Orchestre National de Cannes 2026-2028
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Conductor in Residence of the Baden-Baden Philharmonic
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Principal Guest Conductor of the Opera Varna
2025
- Oper Limoges - "Tosca", "Martha"
- Theater Nordhausen - "Idomeneo", "Jolanthe"
- Oper Varna - " Rusalka"
2024
- Oper Limoges - "Pagliacci"
- Theater Nordhausen -"Roméo et Juliette"
2023
- Theater Nordhausen - "Le Nozze di Figaro", Don Giovanni"
- Oper Limoges "Faust", "Peer Gynt"
- Oper Varna - "Tosca", "The cunning little vixen"
- Asia Tour with Diana Damrau, Nicolas Testé
2022
- Theater Winterthur "Dornröschen"
- Oper Varna "Pique Dame", "Otello"
- Oper Plovdiv "Die Onkel"
2021
- Oper Zürich "Leonce und Lena"
- Oper Limoges "Rusalka"
- Oper Plovdiv "Il barbiere di Siviglia"
- Oper Varna "Les contes d'Hoffmann"
2020
- Wiener Staatsoper "Don Pasquale"
- Mikhailovsky Theater "Un ballo in maschera"
- Oper Plovdiv "Falstaff"
- Tour mit Diana Damrau und Nicolas Testé
2019
- Oper Zürich "Les pecheurs de perles"
- Oper Zürich "Nijinski"
- Oper Limoges "Die tote Stadt"
- RSO Sofia "Eugene Onegin"
2018
- Wiener Staatsoper "L'elisir d'amore"
- Oper Zürich "L'Heure espagnole"
"L' Enfant et les sortileges"
- Oper Zürich "Schwanensee"
Awards
- International classical Music Award 2012
- Deutscher Schallplattenkritikpreis 2012/2014/2017
- Wahl zum Bulgarischen Dirigent des Jahres 2012
Vita
„I have often had the opportunity to hear concerts by Pavel Baleff with Baden-Baden Philharmonie, and I very impressed by the quality which he achieved with this Orchestra“ Pierre Boulez, Paris, July 2011
Since season 2022-2023 Pavel Baleff is a Music Director of the Opera Limoges in France and General Music Director of the Theater Nordhausen and Loh – Orchestra Sondershausen in Germany.
After his time as Chief Conductor of the Baden-Baden Philharmonic (2007-2022) he is chosen as „Conductor in residence“ of this orchestra for five seasons until 2027 and as permanent guest-conductor of the Opera Varna. From 2026 to 2028 Pavel Baleff will be Music Director of the Academy of the Orchestre National de Cannes
Pavel Baleff won the International Classical Music Award 2012 , also German Record Critics Award 2012, 2014 and 2017 with Krassimira Stoyanova and with the Munich Radio Orchestra.
Mr. Baleff is a regular guest conductor of several national and international orchestras including the following: at the Viena State Opera ( 2016-2020), at the Oper Zurich ( 2012-2021), at the Semperoper Dresden, at the Oper Leipzig with Gewandhaus Orchestra., Bolschoi Theater Moscow, Mikhaylovsky Theater St. Peterburg, the Tokyo Philharmonic, Singapore SO, Danish SO, Walt Disney Studio Orchestra LA.
Pavel Baleff was ” Conductor of the Year 2010″ in Bulgaria for “The Ring of the Nibelung” at the National Opera Sofia 2010 – 2012.
The Bulgarian conductor Pavel Baleff was born in 1970. In 1988 he conducted his first concert. In 1993 he received the Bulgarian Radio prize for the best young musician and produced radio and television recordings with the leading orchestras in the country.
Since 1995 Pavel Baleff has been a participant in the Conductors Forum of the German Music Association. In 1996 Pavel Baleff won the 1st Prize in the International competition Carl Maria von Weber in Munich prize winner concert with the Munich radio Orchestra in the Hercules Hall of the palace) and in 1999 he won the conducting competition of the German music schools in Weimar with the Herbert von Karajan – Foundation. In 2003 Pavel Baleff won the renowned Bad Homburg conductor award – one of the highest German conductor honours.
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