Les Violons à Rome, de Corelli à Nino Rota

Kyrian Friedenberg is a 27-year-old American-Canadian conductor who served as Assistant Conductor of the Ensemble intercontemporain at the Philharmonie de Paris from 2024-26. He came to international attention after winning the 2022 Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and has since been recognized with Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Awards in 2024 and 2025. In 2025, he was a Grand Finalist in the 59th Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors and was in residence with the Vienna Philharmonic as the 2025 AAF/Faber Conductor Fellow at the Salzburg Festival.

In the 2025–26 season, he debuts with l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Choeur de Radio France for the opening of the Festival Présences. He returns for a second year with the Ensemble intercontemporain and makes several other major debuts: with Les Violons du Roy in Quebec City and Montreal, l’Orchestre National du Capitol du Toulouse, l’Orchestre National d’Île-de-France in the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez at the Philharmonie de Paris, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, l’Opéra de Bordeaux, and returns to l’Orchestre National de Cannes for three separate projects. He joins Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Conductor on a 13-concert tour of Europe, and he will be Assistant Conductor in Die Zauberflöte at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in summer 2026.

Highlights of the 2024–25 season included his debut with the Ensemble intercontemporain, a return to l’Orchestra della Toscana to close the Sagra Musicale Umbra in Perugia, New Year’s concerts with l’Orchestre National de Metz, and a residency at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Verdi’s Rigoletto. With the Ensemble intercontemporain, he assisted Pierre Bleuse in the Grand Soir Edgard Varèse—leading rehearsals for Amériques and Arcana—and in Boulez’s Répons to open the Philharmonie’s Boulez Centenary. He also assisted Matthias Pintscher and l’Orchestre National de France at the Festival Présences.

He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Alain Altinoglu, and has participated in the Gstaad Conducting Academy (2022) and the Accademia Chigiana (2023), working closely with Jaap van Zweden and Daniele Gatti. He has also taken part in masterclasses with Mikko Franck, Johannes Schlaefli, Baldur Brönnimann, Alexandre Bloch and others. He currently studies Baroque conducting and Maestro al cembalo with Leonardo García Alarcón part-time at the Haute École de Musique de Genève.

Before turning to conducting, Kyrian worked as a professional actor, appearing in 332 performances of the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone (dir. Arthur Laurents), as well as in several Off- and Off-Off-Broadway productions, including a lead role in Ron Hirsen’s Frugal Repast at the Abingdon Theater in Manhattan. He also performed widely as a boy soprano, singing title roles in Nico Muhly’s Two Boys, Peter Ash’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors.

Originally from New York City, Kyrian holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from McGill University and now resides in Paris.

With the depth of her timbre, the equality of her voice, the mastery of her breath, the emotion of her singing and her striking charisma, Rose Naggar-Tremblay has made a stunning entrance onto the musical scene.

Rose began her musical training with the piano and choral singing before taking up classical voice at the age of 12. She continued her studies at McGill University in music and literature and later graduated from the Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal. Since 2020, she has been studying with Hellström-Färnlöf, Director of the Academy of Music and Opera at the University of Mälardalen.

Her career was immediately marked by a striking musical openness, with exciting projects and exceptional success in major competitions. Rose went on to win First Prize in the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) Competition, First Prize in the Georges Enesco Competition in Paris, the Jeune espoir lyrique canadien scholarship at the Gala des Jeunes Ambassadeurs lyriques, and the Prize for the best performance of a Canadian work in the OSM Competition with the cycle Healing, which she composed in collaboration with Éric Champagne. In 2022, she was named Révélation Radio-Canada Musique Classique 2022-2023, won Second Prize in the Prix d'Europe 2022, and was awarded the prestigious Fernand Lindsay Career Grant. In the autumn of 2024, she won the Audience Prize at the Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition in New York.

Her passion for theatre explains why opera is such an important part of her engagements. In 2021, she made a remarkable debut at the Sofia Opera in the role of Carmen. In 2023, she made her French debut at the Metz and Reims Operas as the Second Spirit (Dvořák's Rusalka) and at the Munich Opera as the Innkeeper (Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov), in addition to reprising the role of Carmen at the Edmonton Opera. In 2024, she sang A Voice from Above (Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten) at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and Erda (Wagner's Das Rheingold) at the Erfurt Theatre.

An accomplished musician, she frequently devotes her voice to chamber music. In concert, Rose Naggar-Tremblay tackles a vast repertoire, from the baroque era to contemporary works, from sacred masterpieces to major lyrical works. She has been invited to sing Elgar's Sea Pictures, Palmeri's Magnificat, Handel's The Messiah, Vivaldi's Dixit Dominus, Mozart's and Duruflé's Requiem, and numerous Bach cantatas, under such renowned conductors as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rafael Payare, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Jacques Lacombe, Christophe Rousset, and Laurence Equilbey.

An eclectic artist, Rose Naggar-Tremblay is also a singer-songwriter. She recorded her first album of original songs in 2022, entitled Je me souviens à toi, a cross between French chanson and chamber music. In March 2022, she also took part in the recording launch of La nuit est ma femme, an opera by Mathilde Côté based on the life and texts of Jack Kerouac, in which she plays the role of Gabrielle.

The richness of the 2024/2025 season is striking: the title role in Händel's Giulio Cesare at the Théâtre du Capitole (Christophe Rousset conducting, Damiano Michieletto directing); a major concert entitled Charlebois symphonique with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and then the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec; a revival of Carmen at the Sofia Opera; the role of Farnace in Mozart's Mitridate with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset at La Scala in Milan and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

For 2025/2026, Rose will collaborate again Les Talens Lyriques for the role of Medoro in Händel's Orlando at the Opéra de Nancy, the Théâtre de Caen, and the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg in autumn 2025. She will then sing Erda in Das Rheingold at the Prague National Theatre under the baton of Robert Jindra; the roles of Female Courtier V and Jane Kennedy in the premiere of Brett Dean’s One Blood at the Munich Opera with Vladimir Jurowski and Claus Guth.

Her first solo disc, devoted to the Handel repertoire, will be released on the Arion label.