Known for his clear and sensitive conducting, Etienne Ferrer is driven by a passion for a wide repertoire, with a particular affinity for opera and working with singers. In 2023, he made his Italian debut, conducting a brilliant performance of Verdi’s Un Ballo in maschera at the Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto, where he comes back in 2025 to conduct Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore.

He is regularly invited as Assistant Conductor in major opera houses and national orchestras in France and Europe, such as the Hungarian State Opera, the Grazer Oper, the Festival della Valle d’Itria, the Opéra National du Rhin, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and the Orchestre National de Metz Grand Est.

With his Strasbourg-based opera troupe, he conducts fully-staged productions of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Massenet’s Don Quichotte, several opéras bouffes by Offenbach and the two great Viennese operettas: Die Fledermaus and Die Lustige Witwe.

Since 2022, he serves as Music Director of the Chœur de Saint-Guillaume with whom he focuses on symphonic choral music (Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Schöpfung…) and the vocal repertoire of J. S. Bach, above all the St. John and St. Matthew Passions, sung alternatively each year for Good Friday, following the great tradition initiated by the choir’s founder Ernest Munch at the end of the 19th century. In November 2025, he conducted Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor to mark the choir’s 140th anniversary.

For his commitment to Strasbourg’s musical life, he was awarded a scholarship for the Bayreuther Festspiele 2024 by the Cercle Richard Wagner de Strasbourg.

After completing his cello studies, Etienne Ferrer graduated with a Master in Conducting from the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin, studying with Theodor Guschlbauer and Miguel Etchegoncelay. He perfected his skills in the modern and contemporary repertoire with Jean-Philippe Wurtz, choral conducting with Jean-Philippe Billmann and baroque music with Benjamin Steens. He attended masterclasses with, among others, Jorma Panula, David Reiland, Alain Altinoglu, Johannes Schlaefli, Mei-Ann Chen, Giuseppe Finzi and Antonello Allemandi.

Deeply involved in music education through orchestral practice, he is Music Director of several youth orchestras in Alsace. He was also guest conductor for the Young Public Department of the Opéra National du Rhin and regularly gives pre-concert lectures for the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.