Bringuier becomes music director in Liège
Lionel Bringuier, the former music director of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, becomes music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.
Bringuier will take up the post in Liège at the beginning of September 2025. The contract has a term of four years. He succeeds Gergely Madaras, who took on the role for six years. The Hungarian conductor will return to the OPRL as a guest conductor from the 2026/27 season.
Bringuier was music director of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich from 2014 to 2018 and of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León in Valladolid from 2009 to 2012. Since 2019, he has been an associate artist of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, his home town. He was recently appointed Principal Conductor there for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons.
The Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège is the only professional symphony orchestra in the French-speaking part of Belgium. It was founded in 1960 by Fernand Quinet, then director of the music conservatory in Liège, and was initially known as the Orchestre de Liège. The orchestra's main aim is to disseminate the Belgian-French repertoire, but also to explore new repertoire and premieres.
