a French Touch - Orchestre de chambre de Paris

a French Touch
in the chamber orchestra world !
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a French Touch
in the chamber
orchestra world !
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris…
• the leading chamber orchestra in France
with 43 musicians;
• a n artistic team with principal conductor
Thomas Zehetmair, Sir Roger Norrington,
first guest conductor, François Leleux,
associate artist, and composer Philippe
Manoury;
• a selection of prestigious guest artists:
Christian Zacharias, Emmanuel Pahud,
Stephen Kovacevich, Michel Portal,
Fazil Say, Gautier Capuçon
and John Nelson among others;
• s pecial attention given to the vocal
repertoire and oratorio including an artistic
partnership with the accentus choir
and Laurence Equilbey.
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Orchestre
de chambre
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Since its foundation in 1978, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris,
with its 43 permanent musicians, has established itself
as the leading chamber orchestra in France.
The originality of its concerts, its intimate chamber music
approach to repertoires as well as its pursuit of new
venues and challenges and its civic initiatives towards new
audiences all confer an original identity to the Orchestre
de chambre de Paris in the Parisian musical landscape.
To enhance its unconventional profile, the orchestra
adopted the name “Orchestre de chambre de Paris” in
2012. This evolution gives the orchestra a clear identity
while ensuring its inclusion in the network of major
international chamber ensembles.
Following successive collaborations with renowned artists
such as Jean-Pierre Wallez, Armin Jordan, Jean-Jacques
Kantorow, John Nelson (appointed Honorary Music
Director) or Joseph Swensen, an artistic team sharing its
commitment and its chamber music approach to repertoire
was brought on board: Thomas Zehetmair, principal
conductor and artistic advisor, Sir Roger Norrington, first
guest conductor, François Leleux, associate artist, the
accentus chamber choir and Laurence Equilbey, Philippe
Manoury, associate composer.
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris also works with leading
artists: Christian Zacharias, Emmanuel Pahud, Stephen
Kovacevich, Michel Portal, Fazil Say, Gautier Capuçon,
to name a few.
The orchestra gives concerts at the théâtre des ChampsÉlysées, at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Cité de la Musique, Salle
Pleyel and the Théâtre du Châtelet and at the Philharmonie
de Paris as soon as 2015. In addition to this Parisian
season, the orchestra’s reputation continues to grow both
in and outside France, with its programme including tours
(Europe, Japan, South America, Russia, etc.); participations
to leading festivals (Folles Journées, Festival of SaintDenis, Enescu Festival in Bucarest, Schleswig-Holstein
Festival, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Belgrade or Bratislava
Festivals, etc.).
Beethoven’s complete symphonies directed by John Nelson
(CD); Saint-Saëns’s concertos with Brigitte Engerer and
Henri Demarquette (CD); Chopin’s piano concertos with
Boris Berezovsky (CD), Mendelssohn’s Christus and
Cantatas with the accentus chamber choir and Laurence
Equilbey and lately, a recording of Saint-Saëns’s et Fauré’s
works with Thomas Zehetmair and Deborah Nemtanu.
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris embraces an ethical
and socially responsible outlook, expressed around four
types of goals: territorial, solidarity, occupational integration
and educational through cultural actions and artistic
residences in the city of Paris and France as a whole.
Solidarity with the inaccessible audiences is also one of its
missions in France as well as in the Middle East. Last but
not least, the orchestra’s action in favour of occupational
training and education is embodied in the development of
the international “Paris Play-Direct Academy” and the work
with students from the conservatories of music.
The Orchestre de chambre de Paris and its international
projects are supported by the City of Paris, the French
Ministry of Culture, and corporate sponsors acting
under the auspices of the Crescendo Association.
The orchestra pays tribute to Pierre Duvauchelle, creator of the brand
Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and thanks Alexandre Tharaud for
agreeing to transfer the ownership of this brand on amicable terms.
Over the past 10 years, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris
has also made a name for itself in the studio with over 20
recordings bearing eloquent testimony to its voice, oratorio,
chamber orchestra, and Contemporary music repertoires.
Some striking examples include Bach’s Mass in B minor
performed at the Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral (DVD);
Beethoven’s complete piano concertos with FrançoisRené Duchâble at the Opéra royal de Versailles (DVD);
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Thomas
Zehetmair
Principal conductor
and artistic advisor
Thomas Zehetmair is a violinist, conductor
and chamber musician who is well-known on
the international stage. He will be the Principal
Conductor and Artistic Advisor for the
Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
Starting as violinist, he performed in the leading European
venues including the Royal Festival Hall London, the
Konzerthaus Vienna, the Kölner Philharmonie and the Munich
Philharmonic, and then pursued a career as conductor with
the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Mozarteumorchester
Salzburg, the Hallé Orchestra Manchester and the Stavanger
Symphony Orchestra. In 2002, he was named Music Director
of the Northern Sinfonia in England, and since 2010, he has
been “Artistic Partner” of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
in the United States.
His recordings of the major repertory works for violin have
won a number of internationally recognized awards, including three Gramophone Awards and three Diapason d’Or
de l’Année. His recording of Mozart’s concertos for violin
with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under the
baton of maestro Frans Brüggen is regarded as a reference.
In 2005, he received the German Record Critics’ Award for
the versatility of his artistic work. He also holds an honorary
doctorate from the Music Academy Franz Liszt in Weimar
and in 2012, the Newcastle University awarded him a honorary doctorate too.
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Sir Roger
Norrington
First Guest conductor
Sir Roger Norrington is a well-known
conductor on the international stage and shows
a keen interest in period performance practices.
For almost 5 decades, he has been working with orchestras
on Baroque and classical music repertoires. Conducting
the London Classical Players, which he founded in the
1980’s, and, more recently, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony
Orchestra and the Camerata Salzburg, he has encouraged
musicians to express themselves while returning to the original characteristics of this music. This has seen him pay
special attention to the positioning and size of the orchestra, as well as the tempo, phrasing, articulation and sound.
Performances in renowned venues include the Kent Opera
House, Covent Garden, the English National Opera, La Scala
in Milan, La Fenice in Venice and the Wiener Staatsoper.
He is a regular guest conductor with leading orchestras
such as the Berlin, Vienna and London Philharmonics, the
Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Concertgebouw, the London
Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
He has been the principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio
Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 2011. With this ensemble,
he conducted a remarkable series of recordings of Mozart,
Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner
and Mahler on period instruments, illustrating how modern
orchestras can make period music their own.
At present, he is the music director of the Zurich Chamber
orchestra.
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Recognized worldwide as the best oboist
of his generation, François Leleux pursues
an international career appearing
with leading orchestras and at renowned venues
and festivals around the world.
Recognized worldwide as the best oboist of his generation, François
Leleux pursues an international career appearing with leading
orchestras and at renowned venues and festivals around the world.
He works with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Mariss Jansons,
Sir Colin Davis, Myung-Whun Chung and Daniel Harding.
Since September 2012, he has been an associate artist of the
Orchestre de chambre de Paris with which he has already performed
on numerous occasions, such as the premiere of Thierry Escaich’s
Concertino for violin and oboe. He was invited as soloist by the
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre national de
Lyon, the Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and the Malmö
Symfoniorkester.
He has appeared as soloist-conductor with the Tonkünstler Orchester,
the Camerata Salzburg, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the
Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Gävle Symfoniorkester.
Francois Leleux also performs as a soloist-conductor and shows a
keen interest in the oboe’s contemporary repertoire; some leading
composers have dedicated works to him.
François Leleux exclusively records for Sony Classical. His latest
CD, Le Charme du hautbois, recorded with the Munich Chamber
Orchestra, includes concertos by Cimarosa, Bellini, Marcello, Vivaldi,
Gluck and Pasculli.
François Leleux
Associate artist, oboist
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www.francoisleleux.com
Laurence Equilbey
Laurence Equilbey
and the accentus chamber choir
As a conductor and music director of accentus
and Insula orchestra, Laurence Equilbey
is well-known for her demanding
and high artistic standards.
She occupies a unique place among symphony
conductors who are in demand in the symphonic,
oratorio and opera genres.
Laurence Equilbey is an associate artist of the
Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
She is also a guest conductor of the Grand Théâtre
de Provence as well as artistic and educational
director of the Department for Young Singers
at the Paris Regional Conservatory.
Her important opera conducting projects have included Rossini’s
La Cenerentola at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Pascal
Dusapin’s Medeamaterial at the Musica Festival. In 2012-2013,
she has conducted Sous apparence, a choreographic creation
by Marie-Agnès Gillot at the Opéra de Paris and Ciboulette by
Reynaldo Hahn at the Opéra-Comique. In 2010, Laurence Equilbey
has conducted Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the
Brussels Philharmonic and accentus at Cité de la musique. Her
other orchestral conducting includes working with the orchestras of
Lyon, Nice, Picardie, Lille, Pays de la Loire, Bucharest, Warsaw, Café
Zimmermann and Concerto Köln, among others. In July 2012, she
was invited to the Salzburg Festival to conduct Camerata Salzburg
and accentus in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor.
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accentus is a professional chamber choir
dedicated to a cappella works as well as to
contemporary repertoire, oratorios and operas.
Founded by Laurence Equilbey, the choir
has appeared at the most renowned French
and international venues and festivals.
The ensemble works with the most prestigious conductors and
orchestras (Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre
de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre de l’Opéra
de Rouen Haute-Normandie, Concerto Köln, Akademie für
Alte Musik Berlin and Insula orchestra).
It also takes part to lyrical productions, for example at the
Opéra de Paris or at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
All its discographic recordings (Naïve) are largely acclaimed by
the music press, for example « Transcriptions » (Disque d’or)
and « Haydn, Les Sept Dernières Paroles du Christ en croix ».
Accentus was awarded the « Ensemble de l’année » Prize at
the French Classical Music Awards (Victoires de la musique
classique) in 2002, 2005 and 2008.
Pieter-Jelle de Boer has been the principal associate conductor
of accentus since the 2011-2012 season.
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accentus
Philippe Manoury is a composer and teacher,
but also a researcher and organizer of musical life.
He occupies a unique place in the evolution
of the music of our time.
He has begun composing quite early in life as a self-taught
composer. Subsequently, he studied composition at the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. His
first creation Cryptophonos was given at the Metz Festival
in 1974.
He gives lectures and conferences on contemporary music in
various Brazilian universities. He has been a guest researcher
at Ircam. Since then, he has been participating as a composer
and teacher to the activities of the Institute. In collaboration
with the mathematician Miller Puckette, he has carried out
research in the field of real-time interaction between acoustic
instruments and new technologies related to computer music.
Philippe Manoury
He has been head of education with the Ensemble
Intercontemporain before teaching composition and electronic music at the Conservatoire de Lyon. Since 2004, he
has taught composition at the University of California in San
Diego and he will also be teaching at the Conservatory of
Strasbourg in 2013.. He is also a composer in residence at
the Lucerne Festival.
His work covers all genres: solo pieces, mixed electronic
music, chamber music, works for choir and orchestra, operas,
including La Nuit de Gutenberg, created at the Opéra national
du Rhin in Strasbourg and for which he was awarded the
"Composer of the year" Prize at the French Classical Music
Awards (Victoires de la musique classique) in 2012.
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Contacts
For further information and touring
management details, please contact:
Nicolas Droin
General manager
[email protected]
+ 33 6 42 06 76 22
Lila Forcade
Artistic administrator
[email protected]
+ 33 6 03 57 42 50
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
218 avenue Jean Jaurès - 75019 Paris
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