Nir Kabaretti (Hebrew: ניר קברטי) (born February 5, 1968 in Holon) is an Israeli orchestra conductor. Kabaretti is Music Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony in California since 2006 and the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra since 2015. In 2018 he was appointed Music Director of The Israel Sinfonietta Beersheba. He regularly collaborates as guest conductor with some of the world’s most renowned orchestras, opera houses and soloists such as Itzhak Perlman, Lang Lang and Hélène Grimaud .