Nir Kabaretti has established in recent years an outstanding international reputation of both symphonic and operatic repertoire.

In 2006 he was chosen out of 300 candidates to be the new music director of the Santa Barbara Symphony in California.

Upon graduation from the prestigious University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , he began working as Coach and Chorus Master at the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival , followed by positions as assistant to the Music Director at the Teatro Real in Madrid and conductor and personal assistant to Maestro Zubin Mehta at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy.

Nir Kabaretti conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, L'Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, Orquestre National du Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano “La Verdi”, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra of Rishon Le Tzion, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester, La Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, La Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria and the Bochumer Symphoniker .

In 2002, Kabaretti was appointed Principal Conductor of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra in Israel and in 2003, its Music Director until 2008.

His operatic experience includes productions at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Macbeth, Il Trovatore, Gianni Schicchi, The Journey to Rheims ), Teatro Real in Madrid ( Cenerentola, Die Walküre ), The Israeli Opera ( Fidelio, Manon Lescaut ), Opéra de Lausanne ( Nino Rota's Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze, Die Fledermaus) and The New National Theatre in Tokyo ( The Barber of  Seville ). he conducted The Diary of Anne Frank , aguest production of the Vienna State Opera performed at both the Bregenz Festival and Expo 2000 in Hanover . In 2005 maestro Kabaretti lead Teatro San Carlo di Napoli on its first tour to Japan conducting Il Trovatore both in Kyoto and Tokyo.

During 2004-05, Kabaretti made his début at Teatro alla Scala di Milano with Tchaikowsky´s The Nutcracker, and was invited again in 2007 for a ballet production of Mendelssohn's Midsummer night's Dream (broadcasted by Italian television RAI).

Among his recognitions, Kabaretti was awarded the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Young Conductors, won the 1993 Forum Junger Künstler Conducting Competition in Vienna and in 1994 was a finalist in the International Competition for Conductors in Douai , France .

Some of Kabaretti's upcoming engagements for the 2008-09 season include Carmen at the Granada Theatre (California), and a production of Lohengrin at Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires.

Nir Kabaretti speaks fluently Hebrew, English, Italian, German and Spanish.