He is currently principal conductor of the Berliner Symphoniker, a post he has held since 1997. During his tenure he has given more than 150 concerts at the Berlin Philharmonie, as well as many open-air concerts at the Gendarmenmarkt and the Kulturbrauerei.
Attualmente è il Direttore Principale dell’Orchestra Sinfonica di Berlino (Berliner Symphoniker), incarico che ha ricoperto dal 1997. Durante il suo mandato, Maestro Shambadal ha portato più di 150 concerti al famoso Filarmonica di Berlino così come molti concerti all’aperto al Gendarmenmarkt e la Kulturbrauerei.
hundreds of performances on tour
in Japan, China, Korea, Italy, Spain, Ireland, England, France and Germany. In 2009 he was appointed music director of the
Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (OFB), Colombia , with which he toured China and Italy in 2009/10. Since 2008 he has been principal guest conductor of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra in Latvia and principal guest conductor of the Chengdu Symphony Orchestra in Sichuan, China. He also works regularly with the Federico Cesi Festival in Italy, where he gives advanced courses in the symphonic and operatic repertoire; since 2007 he has appeared each year as a guest artist on the orchestral training programme at theBanff Centre in Canada corsi di perfezionamento per repertorio sinfonico e operistico; dal 2007, ogni anno è apparso come artista ospite per l’orchestra programma di formazione presso il Lior Shambadal has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, among them the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Cologne Radio Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Brandenburgische Staatsphilharmonie Frankfurt (Oder), the Augsburg Symphony Orchestra, the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, the Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra and Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in Antwerp, the Oulu Symphony Orchestra in Finland, the Montpellier Philharmonic, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma e del Lazio, the symphony orchestras of San Remo, Lecce and San Marco (Veneto), the NÖ Tonkünstler Orchester in Vienna, the Wiener Konzertverein, the Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra and the Baden Chamber Orchestra.He has also conducted the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Bucharest Radio Orchestra, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Kraków Philharmonic, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Hermitage Chamber Orchestra in St Petersburg, the Irkutsk Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, the Macao Philharmonic, the Seoul Philharmonic, the UNAM Symphony Orchestra in Mexico City, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the orchestra of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the UNCUYO Symphony Orchestra in Mendoza, the Brazilian Philharmonic and the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra in Rio de Janeiro, the Brasília Symphony Orchestra, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, the Bursa Symphony Orchestra in Turkey, the Denver and Boulder festival orchestras and the Monadnock Festival orchestra in the United States, among many others.
Il Maestro Shambadal si è esibito con molte delle principali orchestre del mondo, tra cui la Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, la Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, la WDR Cologne Radio Orchestra, la Filarmonica di Monaco, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, NDR Radio Symphony Orchestra Hannover, Brandeburgo Staats Philharmonie, Frankfurt / Oder, Augsburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Aachen DR Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, l’Orchestra Sinfonica della Radio Olandese, Orchestra da Camera della Radio Olandese, la Royal Philharmonic Flandern, Antwerpen, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Finlandia. Orchestra Filarmonica di Montpellier, France, Orchestre Filarmonica du Strasbourg, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma e del Lazio, Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo, Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce, Orchestra Sinfonica di San Marco, Veneto, NÖ Tonkünstler Orchestra, Vienna , Wiener Konzert Verein, Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra, Baden Chamber Orchestra.
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestra della Radio di Bucarest, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, la Filarmonica di Belgrado, Serbia, Cracow Philharmonic, Poland, Lisbon, Metropolitan Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Ermitage, San Pietroburgo, Orchestra Sinfonica di Irkutsk, Russia. Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shen Zhen Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, Filarmonica di Macao, Seoul Philharmonic, la Korea, l’Orchestra Sinfonica UNAM, Mexico City, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale del Messico, Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Cologne, Buenos Aires, Mendoza UNCYU Symphony Orchestra, Brasil Philharmonic, Rio de Janeiro, l’Orchestra Sinfonica Brasilera, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey. Bursa Symphony Orchestra Turchia. Orchestra del festival di Denver, Boulder, USA, Orchestra di Monadnock festival, Maine, the United States d’America, e molte altri.
principal conductor of the Haifa Symphony, and from 1986 to 1993 he led the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv, touring regularly in Europe. He co-founded Musica Nova in Tel Aviv and brought the Mendelssohn Players to Berlin . His operatic repertoire takes inmore than 40 works of the German, Italian, French, Russian and English repertoire , as well as world premieres including Franz Hummel’s “Gesualdo” and Magret Wolf’s “Kirisk”, to a libretto by Chingiz Aitmatov. From 1993 to 2000 he was music director of the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern, Germany, where heconducted more than 600 performances , including the opening concerts of the new theatre. He has also appeared at Opera Ontario in Canada and has stagedopera productions in Israel (with the New Israeli Opera and the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra). He has undertaken several special opera projects, among them Glinka’s “A Life for the Tsar” in partnership with theBolshoi Theatre in Moscow , and a new version of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Mozart and Salieri”, of which he was director, conductor and designer (sets and costumes). Lior Shambadal gives advanced coursesworldwide in conducting and in lieder interpretation for
singers and orchestra . Committed to supporting young artists, he has established annual scholarships in honour of the violist Daniel Benyamini (former principal viola of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and member of the Tel Aviv Quartet) and of Mishel Piastro (former leader of the New York Philharmonic and assistant conductor to Arturo Toscanini), and is responsible for the annual selection for the IBM Foundation. Shambadal was born in Tel Aviv, where he studied viola, trombone, composition (with Sergiu Natra) andconducting . His studies took him to the Salzburg Mozarteum , where he worked with Carl Melles. After moving to Vienna he studied with celebrated conductors such as Hans Swarowsky, Carlo Maria Giulini, Igor Markevitch, Sergiu Celibidache and Franco Ferrara. He later broadened his studies into other fields, includingelectronic music and composition with Witold Lutosławski and Henri Dutilleux in France, andmusical phenomenology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany., sotto la guida di Witold Lutoslawski e Henri Dutilleaux (in France), e Fenomenologia Musicale presso la Facoltà di dell’Università Johannes Gutenberg di Magonza, in Germany.