Emmanuel JOEL-HORNAK made his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and has conducted extensively, with acclaimed performances with the opera companies of Lyon, Nantes, Montpellier, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nancy and the Aix-en -Provence Festival. ( Francesca da Rimini, Madama Butterfly, La Fanciulla del West, The Fiery Angel, Tosca, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, The House of the Deaths.)

After his 1993 debut at the Paris Opera/Bastille with Offenbach's Les Brigands, there soon followed engagements at the Wexford Festival (Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche), in Maastricht with opera Zuid (Chabrier's L'Etoile), and in Dublin (Delibes's Lakmé).

Performances during the 1994-95 season included a debut at London's English National Opera with a critically acclaimed new production of Massenet's Don Quixote and a return to the ENO for Les Pêcheurs de Perles and La Bohème; Carmen at the Jerusalem Festival; Semele and Les Pêcheurs de Perles with Melbourne's Victoria State Opera;
During the 1995 autumn he was receive by the Scottish Opera for a new production of La Belle Hélène, and by the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv for the new production of Werther, of which he conducted the revival in 1999.

Emmanuel JOEL-HORNAK made his U.S. opera debut leading San Francisco Opera's production of Carmen during the 1996-97 seasons. He was immediately reengaged by this company to conduct Don Carlo at the 1998 autumn and La Bohème during the 1999-2000 season.
His American career continue with La Traviata at the New York City Opera, Werther for the opening of the 1998-99 season at the Los Angeles Opera with Ramon Vargas, and Faust in Cincinnati.

Among Maestro Joel's most recent engagements are Werther in Toulouse, Chausson's Le Roi Arthus and Samson and Dalila in Montpellier as well as Sydney, Madama Butterfly in Tel Aviv and Aïda for the Scottish Opera in Edinburgh, where he have also conducted Nabucco.

During the1999-2000 season he had conducted Faust in Marseilles, La Bohème in San Francisco, La Fanciulla del West in Montpellier, Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra National du Rhin-Strasbourg, Samson and Dalila in Marseilles and Orfeo in the Underworld at the Teatro Regio di Torino.

During the 2000-2001 season he as lead productions of Barraud's Marouf in Marseilles, Thomas's Hamlet in Torino in January 2001, Don Pasquale with Simone Alaimo and Ruth-Ann Swenson at the Los Angeles Opera in April 2001.

In 2001-2002 his engagements include Samson and Dalila, with Olga Borodina and Sergey Larin in San Francisco,les Dialogues des Carmélites in Gothenburg, as well in Oslo, in November-December 2001, Ernani with the Nederland 's Reise Opera in January 2002, Il Trittico in Nantes in April 2002, Berlioz's Béatrice et Benedict in Lausanne in May 2002.

His assignments for 2002-2003 have included Carmen at the Royal Opera of Stockholm, Samuel Barber' Vanessa at the Washington Opera, with Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Pelléas et Mélisande in Toulouse in March 2003 and Manon with Elisabeth Futral at the Houston Grand Opera.

For the 2003-04 season he is engaged for Carmen at the Royal Opera of Stockholm, Thaïs, with Elisabeth Futral, at the Barbican of London, Werther at the Oslo Opera, Pelléas et Mélisande in Gothenburg, la Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein in Philadelphia; as well as
Manon and Il Trovatore at the Sydney Opera in July-August 2004.
During the 2004-05 season the Maestro made his debuts in Austria, at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, with Don Carlo. Gounod's Roméo et Juliette marques his return to the Houston Grand Opera, with Ramon Vargas and Ana Maria Martinez. And again at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, for Massenet’s Chérubin.

The 2005-2006 season saw him making his debuts in two mains Germans Operas. First with the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden for a new production of Carmen. And at the Opera Leipzig with Hoffmann’s Tales, in February 2006. He then made his comeback at E.N.O, in April 2006, for La Belle Hélène, with Dame Felicity Lott, in Laurent Pelly’s production.

During the 2006-2007 season the Maestro will also do two major debuts. In September with the NBR New-Zealand Opera, in Wellington and Auckland, for a new production of Faust. And in November at the Pittsburgh Opera, conducting Roméo et Juliette, with Marcello Giordani.
In March 2007 he will return to the Opéra de Lausanne, to conduct Paisiello’s Barber of Sevilla, in the production of the Théâtre de la Monnaie-Bruxelles.

In concert, the Maestro has led the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne at the Montreux Festival, Orchestre de Bretagne, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie in Brussels, Orchestre Colonne and Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France in Paris, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lithuania at the Vilnius Festival, the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio di Torino, Het Gelders Orkest in Arnhem, the Philarmonisches Orchester Dortmund and l'Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Auckland Philamornia Orchestra.

Among his projects will be a symphonic concert with the Auckland Philarmonia Orchestra in June 2007, and Hofmann’s Tales and Pearl Fishers with the Australian Opera, in Melbourne, in December 2007.
A new production of Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra de Toulon-Provence Méditerranée, in January 08. And a new Faust at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, in March 08.
La Bohème with the NBR New Zealand Opera in April-May 2008, and a symphonic concert with the Auckland Philamornia Orchestra, in June 08.
In September 08 he will be back to Sydney for Pearl Fishers, this marking his eight collaboration with Opera Australia.
And a new production of Traviata, directed by David Mc Vicar, at the Scottish Opera. Performances in November 08 and February 09.