Known for his clear and sensitive conducting as well as his strong artistic vision, Etienne Ferrer is driven by a passion for a wide repertoire—with a particular affinity for 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. He is regularly invited as Assistant Conductor in major opera houses and festivals in Europe, such as the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, the Grazer Oper, the Festival della Valle d’Itria and the Opéra National du Rhin.
With his Strasbourg-based opera ensemble, he conducts fully-staged productions of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Massenet’s Don Quichotte, several works by Offenbach and the two great Viennese operettas : Die Fledermaus and Die Lustige Witwe.
During the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons, he is part of the Fellow Conductor Internship Program at the Opéra national du Rhin on the productions of Lohengrin, Norma, Turandot, Guercoeur and The Tale of the Tsar Saltan.

Since the 2022/23 season 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, Brahms’ Schicksalslied and Gesang der Parzen) 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.

For his commitment to Strasbourg’s musical and operatic 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 Mei-Ann Chen , Marin Alsop, Jorma Panula, Alain Altinoglu, Johannes Schlaefli, Aziz Shokhakimov, Antonello Allemandi, David Reiland, Ariane Matiakh and Vittorio Parisi.

Deeply involved in music education through orchestral practice, he is Music Director of several youth orchestras in Alsace. He is 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.