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Victor Aviat
Born1982 (1982)
Montpellier, France
Died(2025-05-01)1 May 2025 (aged 42)
Berlin, Germany
Occupations
Years active2002–2025
Websitevictoraviat.com

Victor Aviat (1982 – 1 May 2025)[1] was a French oboist[2] and conductor[3] of classical music and opera.

Biography

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Born in Montpellier,[3][4] Aviat studied oboe, piano and conducting in Paris, Zurich (Zurich University of the Arts)[5] and Geneva.[6] He was an orchestra musician and worked regularly as principal oboe with the Zurich Opera House, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra Mozart among others.[6] After further study, Aviat began a career as a conductor parallel to his activities and has led performances with the Orchestre national de Lille, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and others.[6]

In the season 2015/16, Aviat conducted a new production of Offenbach's operetta Le roi Carotte at the Opéra de Lyon which was broadcast on radio and television and was widely praised.[7][8][9] This production of Le roi Carotte under the musical direction of Aviat won "Best Rediscovered Work" in the International Opera Awards 2016.[10] From 2016 to 2018 Aviat was the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Leverhulme Young Conductor in Association of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.[11] Later, Aviat showed interests in composition. His first orchestral piece, Sur le Danube, was performed by the Orchestre National de France conducted by Emmanuel Krivine at a New Year's concert in the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique in December 2019.[12]

On 1 May 2025, Aviat died from a brain tumor, aged 42.[1]

References

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  2. ^ "Fine chamber playing from Budapest's visiting musicians in Edinburgh", concert review by Alan Coady, Bachtrack, 14 August 2015
  3. ^ a b "Salzbourg : fier de la prestation de Victor Aviat", review, 5 March 2014, L'Agglorieuse [fr] (in French)
  4. ^ "Victor Aviat, Dirigent & Oboist", netzhdk.ch (Zurich University of the Arts)
  5. ^ "«prix netzhdk» geht an Victor Aviat", Schweizer Musikzeitung, 30 September 2016
  6. ^ a b c "About – On the way". victoraviat.com. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  7. ^ Metdepenninghen, Erna (April 2016). "Report from Lyon". Opera. 67 (4): 458–459.
  8. ^ Nicolas Blanmont (17 December 2015). "Opéra: le putsch râpé du Roi Carotte" [Opera: The grated putsch of Roi carotte]. La Libre Belgique (in French).
  9. ^ Robert Quitta (20 December 2015). "Oper: Karottendämmerung in Lyon" [Opera: Twilight of the carrot in Lyon]. Die Presse (in German).
  10. ^ "2016 Winners". International Opera Awards. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  11. ^ "Victor Aviat appointed new BSO Leverhulme Young Conductor in Association". Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 27 November 2016.[dead link]
  12. ^ "Program 31 December 2019" (in French). France Musique. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
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