Victor Aviat

Since launching his international career as a finalist for the 2014 Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award, Victor Aviat has given a series of promising debuts and received critical acclaim for his work in both symphonic and operatic settings. Together with the director Laurent Pelly and the publisher Boosey&Hawkes, he worked on a new pro- duction of Offenbach‘s forgotten opera Le Roi Carotte at the Opéra de Lyon, which was enthusiastically received by the European music press and recorded for television and radio. In the following years, Victor Aviat worked, among others, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, the Orchestre National de Lille, and with leading international soloists such as Benjamin Grosvenor, Veronika Eberle, Dmitry Ulyanov and Sergio Tiempo. Since 2019, the Zafraan Ensemble has been a faithful partner for the performance of modern music.

In 2020, together with the Bastille Musique label, they received the German Record Critics‘ Prize for their participation in a com- plete recording of Christophe Bertrand‘s works. Born in France, Victor Aviat studied oboe, piano and conducting in Zu- rich, Geneva and Leipzig and was a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Parallel to his conducting career, Victor Aviat is also solo oboist of the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, as well as the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly, and performs regularly as a soloist or with other leading orchestras, as well as with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.