Nir Kabaretti is an Israeli orchestra conductor. Kabaretti is Music Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony in California since 2006 and continues to collaborate with some of the world?s most renowned orchestras, opera houses and soloists such as Itzhak Perlman and Lang Lang. Upon graduation from the prestigious University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Kabaretti was appointed chorus master of the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. He served as assistant to the music director of Teatro Real in Madrid, and as Zubin Mehta?s personal assistant and conductor at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In 2004, Kabaretti made his Teatro alla Scala di Milano debut in Tchaikowsky?s The Nutcracker, and in 2007 he returned to La Scala for Mendelssohn?s Ballet Midsummer Night?s Dream. 

February 5th, 1968 in Israel (Age 56)