Conductor
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I have been conducting choirs since 1998, choirs and orchestras since 2008. I am chapel master of the St-Nicolas Parish in Cannes (Choeur de ND de Bon Voyage) and I have regular choirs on the French Riviera (La Sestina and Compagnie Madame Croche). I am sometimes invited by choirs as a clinician, by festivals to conduct workshops, or to collaborate as a choir master on an opera production (Elisir d’Amore by Donizetti, La Bohème by Puccini, Moïse et Pharaon by Rossini, …). I also do workshops in high-schools to prepare the students to sing and move on staged concerts with Orchestre National de Cannes, which I have been collaborating with since 2017. At last, I can set up any professional group, from simple duet to big choir and orchestra band, to fulfill any requirements in the world of events. I have thus setup groups for numbers of private events (weddings, funerals…), but also for collaborations with bands and festivals such as Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Genoa Opera Orchestra, The Real Group, Igorrr, MIDEM+, etc.
Ensemble ALICANTUS
My repertoire with choir includes all kinds of music, from gregorian chant to contemporary music, as well as musicals, world music and improvisation.
My repertoire with choir and orchestra includes pieces such as :
Missa da Requiem, Giuseppe VERDI [orchestration by Joachim Linckelmann]
Polovtsian Dances, Aleksandr BORODIN [orchestration by Jean-Louis Luzignant + original one]
Membra Jesu Nostri, Dieterich BUXTEHUDE
Miserere des Jésuites, Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER
Requiem in C minor, Luigi CHERUBINI [personal orchestration]
Requiem, Gabriel FAURE [1893 version + personal symphonic orchestration]
Requiem for the Living, Dan FORREST
Les 7 Paroles du Christ en Croix, César FRANCK
Mors et Vita, Charles GOUNOD [personal orchestration]
Stabat Mater, Joseph HAYDN
Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
Requiem, Camille SAINT-SAËNS [orchestration by Pierre Calmelet]
Dona nobis Pacem, Peteris VASKS
Sacred music by Jan Dismas ZELENKA, Joseph-Cassanéa de MONDONVILLE, Johann Sebastian BACH, etc.
Opera excerpts by BIZET, DELIBES, MASSENET, OFFENBACH, ROSSINI, VERDI, etc.