laurent pillot

LAURENT PILLOT
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BIOGRAPHY
Te French conductor Laurent Pillot was Associate Music Director of Los Angeles Opera, where he
worked alongside Kent Nagano and Plácido Domingo, and conducted productions especially of Puccini
and Richard Strauss.
2015/16 programme includes his frst collaboration with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc and
an extended Carmen project leading to performances with the Orchestre Symphonique Lyon
Villeurbanne of which he has been Music Director since 1986. He presents a symphonic series each year
with this orchestra in the city and region.
In 2014, he conducted and recorded Così fan tutte with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and gave the
American première of the French version of Bloch’s Macbeth at the Borden Auditorium, New York.
"...Drawing vibrant and colorful playing from the orchestra, Laurent Pillot was especially good at
conveying the mysteriousness that pervades this overlooked score..." Te New York Times.
Guest engagements have included with the Opéra National de Lyon, New York City Opera, Teatro
Regio Turin, the Hallé orchestra Manchester, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre National de
Lille, Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier, I Pomeriggi Musicali Milan, Real Orquesta Sinfónica
de Sevilla and Orquesta de Valencia.
A specialist in nineteenth and early twentieth century French opera, his previous performances in New
York include Fauré’s Pénélope, Les contes d’Hofmann, Béatrice et Bénédict and Cendrillon - all equally
warmly received by the New York press.
Laurent Pillot has a commitment to taking opera through a range of media to people who may not
otherwise have the opportunity to experience it. Film work has included Britten’s Owen Wingrave and
Te Seven Deadly Sins with Teresa Stratas, Peter Sellars and Kent Nagano. He has overseen each new
language version of the award-winning BBC flm of Te Cunning Little Vixen, creating sound-tracks in
addition to the English in Catalan, Czech, French, and Spanish. He has brought Janáček’s masterpiece
to an entirely new audience through live performance – big screen showings with orchestra live on stage.
Te fve-star review in a UK national daily newspaper of his Royal Liverpool Philharmonic version
welcomed this form of presentation adding "Tere were some ravishing colours in the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra's performance thanks to conductor Laurent Pillot's labour of love...".
Alongside his work with professional ensembles, Laurent Pillot has developed a passion for working in
opera with talented young singers and instrumentalists. His work in Munich, where he founded the
Opera Studio at the Bavarian State Opera, was the subject of a three-part documentary for German
television; he has been associated with the European Opera Centre for a decade and has conducted the
Centre’s singers and European Union Youth Orchestra for celebrations of Europe Day in London,
repeated at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
As well as fve years as Assistant Conductor at the Opéra de Lyon, Laurent Pillot’s own professional
training came from work at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic, at the Royal Opera
Covent Garden, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Téâtre du Châtelet, Téâtre des Champs-Elysées and in
the United States.
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PRESS
Macbeth, Ernest Bloch, Borden Auditorium (New York)
New York Times- Dark and Deep Desires- 11 décembre 2014- Anthony Tommasini
« Drawing vibrant and colorful playing from the orchestra, the conductor Laurent Pillot was
especially good at conveying the mysteriousness that pervades this overlooked score, Bloch’s only
opera. »
Opéra magazine n° 103 - David Shengold
« Laurent Pillot, qui a déjà dirigé in loco d'excellentes représentations de Béatrice et Bénédict de
Berlioz, Pénélope de Fauré et Cendrillon de Massenet, tire le meilleur de l'orchestre et du choeur. »
L'orchestre symphonique de Lyon-Villeurbanne a Langeac
mon43.fr – 3/2/2014
« l'orchestre symphonique de Lyon-Villeurbanne a donné un concert au centre culturel, qui pour
l'occasion a fait salle comble.
Les 70 musiciens, sous la direction de Laurent Pillot, ont permis aux spectateurs de revivre par la
musique une vingtaine de flms en passant par King Kong, Out Of Africa, Danse avec les loups, et
toute la série des James Bond (Goldfnger, Dr NO, Bons baisers de Russie, Moonraker, au service secret
de sa majesté…). Laurent Pillot, au CV imposant, est directeur musical de l'orchestre symphonique
Lyon-Villeurbanne depuis 1986, il a également dirigé l'orchestre de l'opéra national de Lyon. »
Europe Day – 2013 - St John's Smith Square, London
Jonathan Fryer
« Te concert that followed, performed by the European Union Youth Orchestra, under the baton
of Laurent Pillot, was the best such event I can ever remember, with an eclectic mix of classical and
more modern works by Percy Grainger, Charles Villiers Stanford, William Wallace and Aloys
Fleischmann, as well as the more predictable Richard Wagner and of course ending with
Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” ».
Concert Dukas, Moussorgsky, Janacek - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – 2012
Te Daily Telegraph
« Tere were some ravishing colours in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's performance
thanks to conductor Laurent Pillot's labour of love »
Don Sanche de Liszt - Concertgebouw d'Amsterdam - 2011
Opera Magazine.nl
« Of the French conductor, Laurent Pillot, I can only ofer praise »
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La Petite Renarde rusée de Janacek – Accompagnement orchestral du dessin animé de Geof
Dunbar
Daily Telegraph – Animated Little Vixen is a delight for sorcerers and apprentices alike –
David Fanning
a Tere were some ravishing colours in the RLPO's performance, and thanks to cinductor Laurent
Pillot's labour of love »
Te Guardian
a Te dynamic interaction of a live orchestra, conducted by Laurent Pillot, gives Geof Dunbar's
flm a lucent additional dimension »
Manchester Evening News
a Te flm is absolutely enchanting, and it does add to its appeal to have it on a big screen and with
a live orchestra. Laurent Pillot did a magnifcent job in co-ordinating the live accompanying
musicians with the pre-recorded voices on the soundtrack »
Pénélope de Fauré – New-York – Borden Auditorium – Décembre 2009
Te New-York Times
« Laurent Pillot drew a warm-toned, fnely balanced performance from the orchestra »
Opera Today
« Te orchestra played lovingly, with impressive polish and attention to detail under Laurent
Pillot »
Times Square
« With eminent conductor Laurent Pillot leading the orchestra in a sensitive and sympathetic
reading of this gorgeous score, any nagging concerns about its worth in the theater are alleviated »
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