lille national orchestra - Orchestre National de Lille

LILLE
NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA
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Jean-Claude Casadesus
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 Taipei, Montreal, Lisbon and Singapore.
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 conducts his orchestra in their first educational DVD designed for teachers
Tableaux d’une Exposition, entre musique et peinture based on the masterwork of Mussorgsky in
association with the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. He is the author of the book Le plus court chemin
d’un coeur à un autre (Stock). In 2012 a series of conversations between Jean-Claude Casadesus and
Frédéric Gaussin entitled La partition d’une vie was published by the Éditions Écriture.
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
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,
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. In September 2013 they give their first concerts in Kazakhstan (in
Almaty and Astana).
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).
In 2011 their Carmen under the baton of Jean-Claude Casadesus given in the Opéra de Lille released in
DVD. In 2012 the Orchestre National de Lille with Jean-Claude Casadesus presented their first educational
DVD designed for teachers Tableaux d’une Exposition, entre musique et peinture based on the masterwork
of Mussorgsky in association with the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.
discography
Jean-Claude Casadesus conductor
Pierre Ancelin
Filius Hominis
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto / Romances
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique / L’Enfance du Christ / Four Prix de Rome Cantatas / La Damnation de Faust
Hector Berlioz Les Nuits d’Été
Ernest Chausson Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer
Paul Dukas La Péri
Georges Bizet
Suites from Carmen et L’Arlésienne / Cantate Clovis et Clotilde / Te Deum / “ROMA” Symphony
Bernard Cavanna
Shanghai Concerto / Trois strophes sur le nom de Patrice Emery Lumumba / Karl Koop Konzert
Joseph Canteloube
Chants d’Auvergne / Chants d’Auvergne II / Tryptique / Chants de France
Claude Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande / Nocturnes / La Damoiselle élue / La Mer
Thierry Escaich
Miroir d’ombres / Vertiges de la Croix / Chaconne
Arthur Honegger
King David
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue / Concerto en fa majeur / Porgy and Bess : A symphonic Picture
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder / Rückert Lieder / Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Symphony No.1 “Titan” / Symphony No.2 “Resurrection”
Symphony No.4 / Symphony No.5
Boxset Symphonies No.1, 2, 4, 5
Jules Massenet
Werther
Darius Milhaud
La Création du Monde / Le Bœuf sur le toit / Suite provençale / L’Homme et son Désir
discography
Jean-Claude Casadesus conductor
Darius Milhaud / Le Groupe des Six
Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel / Le Bœuf sur le toit
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music / Clarinet concerto / Concerto for flute and harp
Francis Poulenc
La Voix humaine / Organ concerto / Concert champêtre / Suite française
Serge Prokofiev
Alexander Nevsky / Lieutenant Kijé (2006 version)
Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade / Pavane pour une Infante défunte / Mélodies Hébraïques / Daphnis et Chloé
Boléro / La Valse / Concerto for the left hand / Concerto in G
Fabrice Ravel-Chapuis et Jacques Trupin
Artango: Métropole, un soir, suite for orchestra, piano and bandoneon
Richard Wagner
Famous overtures and monologues / Der fliegende Holländer / Tannhäuser
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Die Walküre
William Walton
Symphonies 1 and 2
Marie Jaëll (soon available)
DVD
Darius Milhaud Les Choéphores
Georges Bizet Carmen
Modest Mussorgsky Tableaux d’une Exposition (Educational DVD)
bibliography
Jean-Claude Casadesus Le plus court chemin d'un cœur à un autre (Stock)
Jean-Claude Casadesus : La partition d’une vie, a series of conversations with Frédéric Gaussin
(Éditions Écriture)
the musicians
solo violins Fernand Iaciu
violins Stefan Stalanowski / 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 / Thierry Paumier / Mireille Viaud
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cellos Jean-Michel Moulin / N… • N… • 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
Julia Petitjean / Christian Pottiez / N…
flutes Chrystel Delaval / Christine Vienet • Pascal Langlet / Catherine Roux (piccolo)
oboes Baptiste Gibier / Cyril Ciabaud • 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 Sébastien Tuytten / Alexandre Collard • Christophe Danel / Frédéric Hasbroucq / Éric Lorillard
Katia Melleret
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
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