Curriculum Vitae

Ronen Nissan, who was born in Israel and has lived in Vienna since 1995, is a versatile conductor and arranger whose repertoire ranges from symphonic and sacred music to works by composers who were persecuted by the National Socialists, as well as crossovers, film music and tango projects.

Since December 2022, Mr. Nissan has been appearing regularly as part of the “Wiener Ensemble” concert series at the Mozarthaus Museum in Vienna. For 15 years he was music director of the choir and chamber orchestra “St. Stephan” (Tulln, Austria), where he regularly led performances of sacred music. He also served in the past as an assistant conductor for various Viennese opera ensembles.

In cooperation with Meta Management, Mr. Nissan served as  the artistic director of several concerts: in August 2024, performing eight piano concertos, spread over two concerts on the same day,  with the Hofburg Orchestra in the Golden Hall of Vienna’s Musikverein. Before that he led performances In October 2023 in Berlin with the Berliner Symphoniker, and in August 2023 with the Belle Epoch Chamber Orchestra in the Brahms Hall of Vienna’s Musikverein.

In May of 2022 he conducted in Vienna a double bill performance of two operas:  “Mozart and Salieri” (Rimsky Korsakov) and “Zanetto” (Mascagni). 

In recent years Mr. Nissan has been cooperating with Israeli composer Baruch Berliner,  both as arranger as well as conductor, leading performances of his works with orchestras in Vienna, in Lviv, Ukraine, and in St Petersburg, Russia. 

A further artistic cooperation – as conductor, arranger and guitarist – is with the Bente Kahan Foundation (Wroclaw, Poland), presenting “Unfinished Lives” – art-, folk- and Cabaret music from the Theresienstadt ghetto.  Concerts held recently in Vienna (2024), Warsaw (2023), and in Prague (2022).   

In 2019 he led the Hallein chamber orchestra (Austria) as part of the International Guitar Festival there. In 2017/ 8 he conducted the Berliner Symphoniker and in 2012/3 the German radio orchestra, both on concert tours in China. During 2014-5 Mr. Nissan led the soloists, choirs, ballets, and orchestras of the Stara Zagora and the Veliko Tarnovo Operas (Bulgaria) in a series of Strauss Gala and Classic Hollywood film concerts. In 2014 Mr. Nissan conducted a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Czech Republic), after which he was awarded a Medal by the Bishop of Lower Austria for his contribution to sacred music. The same year he also had his debut with the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland).His project, “The Well Seasoned Clarinet”, written and arranged for clarinetist Andy Miles, had its premiere with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany) in 2013. 

In his native country, Mr. Nissan has conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of educational concerts , as well as the Netanya Orchestra and the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra. He also led the “Spirit of Europe” Chamber Orchestra (Austria) on two concert tours of Israel. He worked with orchestras in Italy, the Czech Republic, Argentina Liechtenstein and Turkey.

Ronen Nissan is also an active arranger and guitarist with the Vienna Tango Quintet, with which he performed in Austria, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Poland , Bulgaria and Turkey. The quintet has presented a new CD in 2022 with Austrian Israeli singer Timnna Brauer. 

Mr. Nissan earned both his Master’s and Bachelor’s degree at the Mannes College of Music in New York City.