Jean-Claude Casadesus - Orchestre National de Lille

Jean-Claude Casadesus
After studying at the Paris Conservatoire, Jean-Claude Casadesus trained under two conductors, Pierre
Dervaux and Pierre Boulez. He was appointed musical director of the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1965, and
in 1969 became resident conductor at the Opéra de Paris and the Opéra-Comique. He was one of the
founders of the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, and served as assistant director until 1976, when he
established the Orchestre National de Lille. Under his direction, the orchestra has brought their wide
repertoire, dynamism and artistic integrity to audiences in four continents and thirty countries.
At the same time, he has pursued an international career and is regularly invited to conduct orchestras
in Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Montreal, St. Petersburg, London, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, as well
as the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Berliner Symphoniker. He also conducts opera on a regular basis
in Monte Carlo and Trieste, with the Orchestre de Paris, Flanders Opera and of course, the Opéra de Lille,
where he conducted Carmen in 2010 (DVD release in May 2011). He recently appeared with the
Orchestre National de France at the 2009 Festival Présences.
After China (2007 and the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai) and a triumphant tour in Austria, Slovenia
and Croatia (2009), Jean-Claude Casadesus toured with his orchestra as part of the France-Russia year
in 2010. Future engagements lead him to Moscow, Ankara, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Taiwan and even
Montreal.
An Ardent Defender of contemporary music, he received the Charles Cros Award for the first recording
of his Orchestra : The Première Symphonie by Henri Dutilleux. He is President of Musique Nouvelle en
Liberté (Association for the support and promotion of contemporary music). In 2001 he created a
in-residence composers post, and appointed Bruno Mantovani for 3 years (from 2008 to 2011).
Jean-Claude Casadesus has made thirty recordings with the Orchestre National de Lille, which has
received a number of awards. Recently he was rewarded with a “choc Classica” for the CD Par la chute
d’Adam as a tribute to Olivier Greif published by Accord with the National Orchestra of France and Henri
Demarquette cello. He is the author of the book Le plus court chemin d’un coeur à un autre (Stock). In
2004 he was awarded a Victoire d’Honneur at the Victoires de la Musique Classique.
Jean-Claude Casadesus is director of the Orchestre National de Lille, director of “lille piano(s) festival”.
He served as musical director of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes until December 2007.
He is a Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur, Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Mérite and
Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, Commandeur de l’Ordre Orange Nassau - Officier de l’Ordre Léopold
de Belgique and Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.
Orchestre National de Lille
The Orchestre National de Lille was established with the backing of the Nord-Pas de Calais region and
state support in 1976, and since that date has pursued an ambitious artistic outreach policy, on the
initiative of Jean-Claude Casadesus. Its aims are to make the repertoire better known, foster new music
(particularly by appointing composers-in-residence, such as this season’s Bruno Mantovani, the 2009
Victoires de la Musique Classique’s “composer of the year”), promote fresh talent, and educational and
youth projects. International conductors and soloists are invited by the orchestra’s director to collaborate
in what he defines as “taking music to everywhere it can go”.
Over a period of thirty years, the Orchestre National de Lille has thus established itself as no less than
an ambassador for the region and for French culture, whether at home in France, abroad or in the nearly
two hundred local authorities that make up the Nord-Pas de Calais region and which, in a model
example of decentralisation, it sustains musically. The orchestra’s work has taken it to four continents
and more than thirty countries. After China (2007 and the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai) and a
triumphant tour in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia (2009), the orchestra and Jean-Claude Casadesus
toured in Russia (five concerts) as part of the France-Russia year in 2010.
The Orchestre National de Lille makes regular broadcasts on radio and television and its dynamic
approach in the recording studio is demonstrated by a recent disc devoted to the music of Thierry
Escaich, composer-in-residence between 2003 and 2005 (it won a Choc de l’Année du Monde de la
Musique in 2007). A second disc of music by Canteloube was awarded an Orphée d’or by the Académie
du disque lyrique and the Prix SACD for the best recording of music by a French composer. This
followed on from the first volume of the Chants d’Auvergne, which was the Naxos label’s international
best-selling disc in 2005. The Orchestre National de Lille is the first French orchestra to have recorded
Walton’s two symphonies, just appeared on the BIS label. The orchestra released a cd devoted to Bizet
(Clovis and Clotilde, Te Deum) under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus with Naxos (November
2010) and participated in Bernard Cavanna’s cd (composer-in-residence from 2005 to 2008) through
the Shanghai Concerto and Karl Koop Konzert under the direction of Peter Rundel and Grant Llewellyn at
Aeon (January 2011).
discography
Jean-Claude Casadesus conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto / Romances - Jean-Pierre Wallez (Forlane FF 054)
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (Harmonia Mundi HMA 195072)
L’Enfance du Christ (Naxos 8.553650 / 1)
Lagrange, Viala, Piquemal, Bernardi, Garcin, Vandier, Serre
Four Prix de Rome Cantatas (Naxos 8.555810)
Lagrange, Uria-Monzon, Galvez Vallejo
La Damnation de Faust (Naxos 8.660116 / 17)
Todorovitch, Myers, Vernhes, Schirrer
Prix Mado Robin (Fondation J. Ibert) – Académie du disque lyrique
Hector Berlioz Les Nuits d’Été - Elsa Maurus
Ernest Chausson Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer
Paul Dukas La Péri
(Naxos 8.557274)
Georges Bizet
Suites from Carmen et L’Arlésienne (Forlane UCD 16533)
Clovis et Clotilde (Apex 09274.89952)
Caballé, Garino, Martinovic
Clovis et Clotilde / Te Deum (Naxos 8.572270)
Jovanovic, Do, Schnaible
Bernard Cavanna
Shanghai Concerto / Karl Koop Konzert (Aeon)
Schindler, Bertrand, Contet, Rundel, Llewellyn
discography
Jean-Claude Casadesus conductor
Joseph Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne (Naxos 8.557491 F) - Véronique Gens
Tryptique / Chants de France / Chants d’Auvergne (Naxos 8.570338)
Prix de la SACD – Académie du disque lyrique
Claude Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande (Naxos 8.660047 / 9)
Delunsch, Théruel, Arapian, Bacquier, Jossoud, Golfier, Doumène
Prix Massenet – Académie du disque lyrique
Nocturnes / La Damoiselle élue / La Mer (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901490)
Delunsch, Sullé
Thierry Escaich
Miroir d’ombres / Vertiges de la Croix / Chaconne (Accord 442 9057)
Renaud et Gautier Capuçon, Paul Polivnick, Michiyoshi Inoué
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue / Concerto en fa majeur / Porgy and Bess : A symphonic Picture (Transart)
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder / Rückert Lieder / Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Forlane UCD 16553)
Jose Van Dam baryton - Laser d’or de l’Académie du disque français
Symphony No.1 “Titan” (Forlane UCD 16643) - Grand prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque
Symphony No.2 “Resurrection” (Forlane UCD 16654 / 55) - Ewa Podles, Teresa Zylis-Gara
Symphony No.4 (Forlane UCD 16563)
Margaret Marshall - Grand prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque
Symphony No.5 (Forlane UCD 16609) – Grand prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque
Symphonies and Lieder (Forlane Boxset COD 454)
Jules Massenet
Werther (Naxos 8.660072 / 73)
Haddock, Uria-Monzon, Massis, Azzaretti, Marlière, Bou, Delescluse
Darius Milhaud
Suite provençale / La Création du Monde / Le Bœuf sur le toit / L’Homme et son Désir
(Naxos 8.557287)
discography
Jean-Claude Casadesus conductor
Darius Milhaud / Le Groupe des Six
Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel / Le Bœuf sur le toit (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901473)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music / Clarinet concerto / Concerto for flute and harp (Forlane UCD 16547)
Claude Faucomprez, Chrystel Delaval, Laurence Cabel
Francis Poulenc
La Voix Humaine (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901474) - Françoise Pollet
Prix Gabriel Fauré / Fondation Canteloube / Académie du disque lyrique
Suite française / Concert champêtre / Organ concerto (Naxos 8.554241)
Philippe Lefebvre, Elisabeth Chojnacka
Serge Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kijé / Alexander Nevsky (Naxos 8.557725)
Ewa Podles
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade / Mélodies Hébraïques / Daphnis et Chloé / Pavane pour une Infante défunte
(Harmonia Mundi HMP 190064)
Concerto in G / La Valse / Boléro / Concerto for the left hand (Harmonia Mundi HMA 1951434)
Georges Pludermacher
Fabrice Ravel-Chapuis et Jacques Trupin
Artango: Métropole, un soir, suite for orchestra, piano and bandoneon
(Virgin Classics 7243 5 45347 2)
Richard Wagner
Famous overtures and monologues / Der fliegende Holländer / Tannhäuser
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Die Walküre (Forlane UCD 16633) - José Van Dam
William Walton
Symphonies 1 and 2 (BIS-SACD-1646)
bibliography
Jean-Claude Casadesus Le plus court chemin d'un cœur à un autre (Stock)
the musicians
solo violins Stefan Stalanowski / Fernand Iaciu
violins Lucyna Janeczek / Marc Crenne / Waldemar Kurkowiak / François Cantault / Alexandre Diaconu •
Bernard Bodiou / Sylvaine Bouin / Benjamin Boursier / Bruno Caisse / Anne Cousu / Noël Cousu
Delphine Der Avedisyan / Asako Fujibayashi / Hélène Gaudfroy / Inès Greliak / Xin Guérinet / Thierry Koehl
Olivier Lentieul / Marie Lesage / Brigitte Loisemant / Catherine Mabile / Filippo Marano / Sylvie Nowacki
Stéphane Pechereau / Pierre-Alexandre Pheulpin / Franck Pollet / Ken Sugita / Thierry Van Engelandt
Bruno Van Roy / Françoise Vernay
violas Philippe Loisemant / Paul Mayes • Jean-Marc Lachkar •
Christina Blanco-Amavisca / Jean-Paul Blondeau / Véronique Boddaert / David Corselle / François Cousin
Anne Le Chevalier / Lionel Part / Thierry Paumier / Mireille Viaud
cellos Jean-Michel Moulin / Valentin Arcu • Catherine Martin • Sophie Broïon / Edwige Della Valle
Dominique Magnier / Claire Martin / Alexei Milovanov / Johanna Ollé / Jacek Smolarski
double basses Gilbert Dinaut / Mathieu Petit • Pierre-Emmanuel de Maistre • Yi Ching Ho / Kevin Lopata
Édouard Macarez / Julia Petitjean / Christian Pottiez
flutes Chrystel Delaval / Christine Vienet • Pascal Langlet / Catherine Roux (piccolo)
oboes Philippe Cousu / Baptiste Gibier • Daniel Schirrer / Philippe Gérard (cor anglais)
clarinets Claude Faucomprez / Christian Gossart • Jacques Merrer (E flat clarinet) / Raymond Maton (bass clarinet)
bassoons Clélia Goldings / Jean-Nicolas Hoebeke • Henri Bour / Jean-François Morel (contrabassoon)
horns Christophe Danel / Sébastien Tuytten • Frédéric Hasbroucq / Éric Lorillard / Katia Melleret / N…
trumpets Denis Hu / Cédric Dreger • Fabrice Rocroy (solo cornet) / Frédéric Broucke (cornet)
trombones Romain Simon / Jean-Philippe Navrez • Christian Briez / Yves Bauer (bass trombone)
tuba Hervé Brisse
timpani Laurent Fraiche
percussion Romain Robine • Christophe Maréchal / Dominique Del Gallo / Aïko Miyamoto
harp Anne Le Roy
the orchestra
contact
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orchestre national de lille
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the Nord-Pas de Calais regional council,
the Ministry of Culture and Communication,
Lille metropolitan district council and
the City of Lille