Edo Frenkel

Edo Frenkel joined the Jette Parker Artists Programme in the 2021/22 Season.

For The Royal Ballet Frenkel has assisted on Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. For The Royal Opera he has worked on productions of Tosca and Otello. In the 2021/22 season Frenkel conducted Northern Ballet’s Cassanova in performances in Salford and at Sadler's Wells. He returned to the Northern Ballet this Season to conduct performances of The Nutcracker.

Frenkel has guest conducted LUDWIG, Baltimore Symphony Musicians, Ensemble Meitar, Ensemble Mise-en and appeared in performances with Tonkünstler Orchester-Niederösterreich, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Charleston Symphony, members of New World Symphony and Ensemble Moderne Akademie. He has performed at the Aldeburgh and Lucerne festivals and was a featured Festival Artist at the 2019 Ojai Festival. He was assistant conductor at the Verbier Festival in 2021. 

Frenkel has worked as assistant conductor to Simon Rattle, Brad Lubman, Franck Ollu and Barbara Hannigan. As a keyboard player, Frenkel also served as Hannigan’s rehearsal pianist on the Satie: Socrate project at the Ruhrtriennale Festival and at the Park Avenue Armory, New York. He performed in the Philadelphia Orchestra's SoundLAB as part of the Barnes/Stokowski Festival. 

An accomplished composer, Frenkel has had his compositions performed by Talea Ensemble, EXAUDI vocal ensemble, JACK quartet, Tonküntsler-Orchester Niederösterreich and Ensemble Paramirabo. His works have been featured at Royaumont Voix Nouvelles (France), CEME (Israel) and the ME_MMIX Festival (Spain). Recent commissions include a work for pianist Yu-Ting Huang and the Concours International de Piano d’Orléans and a large-scale work for Ensemble x.y. (UK) as part of their Zeitgeist Online Gallery.