Patrick Fournillier
Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra
.Patrick Fournillier (born 26 December 1954 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French conductor, particularly associated with opera and with the works of Jules Massenet.
He studied in
Salzburg Mozarteum. Between 1983 and 1986 he was assistant conductor in l'Orchestre National de Lille, then become Artistic Director there. Since 1988 he is Music Director of the Nouvel Orchestre de Saint-Étienne and, since 1990, co-founder and Music Director of Massenet Festival at Saint Étienne, bringing many and the most neglected operatic and vocal works of Jules Massenet
back to light again.
He was a recipient of many international rewards and prizes of conducting, including such as: the Hans Haring First International Prize (Salzburg 1982); Second Prize in the
symphony orchestras
and opera theatres around the world invited him either to be their guest conductor or even become their visiting music director.
From 1989 to 1992 he was the Director of the Picardy Sinfonietta in Amiens.
In 1989 he conducted the Paris Opera Ballet in Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty,Finnish National Opera.
Recordings
- Massenet: Amadis (1988)
- Massenet: Cléopâtre (1990)
- Auber: Manon Lescaut (1990)
- Massenet: La Vierge (1991)
- Massenet: Esclarmonde (1992)
- Haydn: Applausus (1992)
- Gounod: Sapho (1992)
- Massenet: Grisélidis (1992)
- Cherubini: Médée (1995)
- Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2003)
- Martin: Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani, percussion, and string orchestra (2004)
- Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac (2007)
- Chabrier : L'Etoile, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Hélène Guilmette, Christophe Montagne, Jérome Varnier,, Choeur de l'Opéra national des Pays-Bas, Orchestre de la Résidence de La Haye, conducted by Patrick Fournillier, stage, Laurent Pelly. DVD or Blu-ray Naxos 2019. Diapason d'or de l'année 2019.
References
- ^ World cat entry for Sleeping Beauty at the Paris Opera. accessed 2 August 2014.
- ^ Biography of Patrick Fournillier at Flanders Opera website Archived 2009-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Short biographical note on P. Fournillier in Who's Who in Music
- Biography of Patrick Fournillier at Flanders Opera website
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