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Koen Kessels
Koen Kessels, Music Director, studied at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire of Music, Antwerp. He made his debut with the Royal
Ballet of Flanders with Cinderella and has been a regular guest conductor for Opéra National de Paris (Le Parc,
Coppélia, Proust, Cinderella, Hurlevent, Hommage à Jerôme Robbins, Giselle, La Petite Danseuse de Degas) since 2005 and
with The Royal Ballet (Nutcracker, Giselle) since 2008. This season he makes his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper and
the Bolshoi and is back with the Brussels Opéra de Munt (Hanjo) and Antwerp Opera (L'Amour de loin). He made
his opera debut with Rouen Opera, France, conducting Il barbiere di Siviglia. His standard repertory contains the
main Verdi, Mozart and Puccini operas, although there is a definite accent on contemporary opera. He founded and is Artistic
Director of HERMESensemble, specialising in contemporary music. He is Music Director of Zomeropera Alden Biesen, Belgium and
on the artistic direction team at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. He joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in September 2010.
Proust (Roland Petit), Cinderella (Nureyev, Paris Opéra Ballet) and Nutcracker (Peter Wright, The Royal
Ballet) have all been released on DVD.
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