Ariane Matiakh

The daughter of two opera singers, Matiakh obtained prizes in piano, chamber music, conducting at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Reims and piano accompaniment at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Rueil-Malmaison.

[1] From 2002 to 2005, she studied conducting at the Musik Hochschule in Vienna in the class of Leopold Hager and Yuji Yuasa and followed the advice of Seiji Ozawa in masterclasses.

In September 2018, the Staatskapelle Halle announced the appointment of Matiakh as its new Generalmusikdirektorin (General Music Director), the first female conductor ever named to the post, effective with the 2019–2020 season.

[2][3][4] In contemporary music, Matiakh has conducted works by Richard Dubugnon, Bechara El-Khoury and Éric Tanguy.

In November 2021 she conducted the premiere of Philippe Hersant's opera Les Éclairs at the Opera-Comique in Paris.