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Omar El Jamali

Conductor

Biography

Omar El Jamali has gained international recognition as a finalist and winner of prestigious competitions such as the Antal Dorati (2021), the BMI Bucharest Symphony Orchestra Competition (2021), and the Erich Bergel Competition (2022). In April 2024, he was a quarter-finalist in the prestigious Malko Competition.

Following this success, he was invited to serve as assistant conductor to Cristian Măcelaru at the Orchestre National de France for major programs in 2024 and 2025, including collaborations with world-renowned artists such as Beatrice Rana, Alexandre Kantorow, and the Janoska Ensemble.

He studied film composition at Berklee College of Music under the direction of Grammy Award-nominated composers Claudio Ragazzi and Eric Reasoner. He then continued his studies in orchestral conducting with Cristian Măcelaru, Kenneth Kiesler and Francisco Noya, in prestigious institutions such as the École Normale de Musique de Paris and La Schola Cantorum de Paris.

 

Omar has conducted orchestras in competitions, masterclasses, and concerts, including the Orchestre National de France, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest MAV Szimfonikus, the Romanian Chamber Orchestra, the Filarmonica de Stat Târgu Mureș, the National Radio and Television Orchestra of Albania, and the Hungarian National Orchestra Szeged, among others.
He is the Director General and co-founder of the Académie de Direction de Neuilly et Grand Paris, a Paris-based conducting school that regularly collaborates with the Orchestre Pasdeloup, the Orchestre Colonne, and the Orchestre Lamoureux.
In the summer of 2024, he was selected as a Fellow in Conducting at the Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz and the George Enescu Festival. Following the success of his appearance at the 2024 Enescu Festival, Omar El Jamali has been invited back for the 2025 edition, where he will make his debut as a featured conductor. He will conduct concerts and serve as assistant/associate conductor for major ensembles.
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“El Jamali delicately conducted Doráti’s lyrical piece for string orchestra and oboe, “Notturno”: Andante (1926), followed by an exuberant, often sumptuous performance of two movements from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Omar demonstrated a mastery of the myriad moment-by-moment demands of each moment on the podium – embodying both the composers’ most spiritual and dynamic intentions.”


— Papageno.com, Hongrie

«  El Jamali led Doráti’s lyrical piece for string orchestra and oboe: “Notturno”: Andante (1926) with delicacy, followed by an exuberant, if often sumptuous, execution of two movements from Tchaikovski’s Symphony No. 6. Omar demonstrated mastery of a million different split-second demands of each moment on the podium – an embodiment of the composers’ most spiritual as well as kinetic intentions. » 

 Papageno.com Hongrie

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