Emmanuël Pleijers studied church music, choral- and orchestral conducting at the
Maastricht-school of Music and the Royal-Academy of Music in Liege.

He has trained several choirs for the Limburg Symphony Orchestra(LSO),
the Great Broadcasting Chorus(Groot omroepkoor) and the
Maastricht-school of Music, including the following choral works:
Trois Nocturnes by Debussy and Barbe Bleu by Offenbach.

He trained the Broadcasting Chorus to perform: Mozart’s Requiem
(Jaap van Zweden), Haydns Creation(Frans Brüggen)and Fauré’s
Requiem(Schlomo Mintz).

At the Royal Opera of Wallonia he assisted Patrik Baton with La Traviata
and Don Pasquale.

He was chorus master at Opera Zuid and trained the choir for the
following operas: L' amour des trois Oranges, Don Giovanni,
Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Madama Butterfly,
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Cosi fan Tutte, Carmen and
Macbeth, as well as being assistant to Jun'Ichi Hirokami.

At the Opera Comique in Maastricht he conducted Les Saltimbaques
by Louis Ganne and Les Cloches des Corneville by Robert Planquette.

At the Mozart Festival in Heerlen (2000) he conducted a concert(opera)
and the oratorio Samson by Händel.

At the Euriade Festival 2001 he conducted La tragédie de Carmen
of Marius Constant.

He taught choral conducting at the SNK in Utrecht and at the music school
in Beek. He was also a member of the NSGV,where he was promoting the
importance of church music.

He is the conductor of the Heerlens Oratorium Choir, the Sittards Mannenkoor "Si-tard",
the Koninklijk Mannenkoor Cecilia 1837 uit Vaals, as well as some other choirs.