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The conductor MIKKO FRANCK began playing the violin at the age of five. From 1992, he studied at the Sibelius-Academy, in New York, Israel and Sweden. In 1995, he began with his conducting studies.
Today, he has a broad repertoire. In 2006 he took over the position of General Music Director at the Finnish National Opera, and from 2008 to 2013 he was Artistic Director there. Since 2002, he is the Artistic Director of the Kangasniemi Music Festival; until 2007, he was the music director of the Orchestre National de Belgique. In the past years he has led the Vienna, Berlin, Munich, New York and London Philharmonics, the Israel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the Bamberger Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, Chicago Symphony and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras. In 2007, he conducted Tosca and L’elisir d’amoreat the ROH Covent Garden. He gave his debut at the Met in December 2011. He recently conducted among others, Parsifal at the Opera house in Zurich and Der Fliegender Holländer and Madama Butterfly at the Festival Orange. He gave his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2014 and has conducted here La Bohème, Lohengrin, Josephs Legende, Verklungene Feste, Tosca, Salome and Elektra. Since September 2015, Mikko Franck is “Director Musical” of the Philharmonic Orchestra Radio France.