Name Francois-Xavier Roth Education Conservatoire de Paris | Role Conductor | |
Albums Le Sacre du printemps / Petrouchka Similar People Tedi Papavrami, Cedric Tiberghien, Denis Pascal, Michel Debost, Hector Berlioz | ||
Francois xavier roth im portrait
Francois-Xavier Roth (born 6 November 1971, Paris) is a French conductor. His father is the organist Daniel Roth. His brother Vincent Roth is a violist. Before turning to conducting, Francois was a flautist. Roth graduated from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique, where his teachers included Alain Marion and Janos Furst.
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In 2000, Roth won the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, which led to a 2-year appointment as Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as an assistant conductor to John Eliot Gardiner. In 2003, he founded Les Siecles, an orchestra which performs on instruments appropriate to the period of composition of each piece. With Les Siecles, he has given concerts in France, Italy, Germany, England and Japan. To mark the centenary of The Rite of Spring in 2013, the orchestra performed the work on period instruments at the BBC Proms and the Alte Oper, Frankfurt. Roth and Les Siecles have devised their own television series for France 2 entitled Presto!, which ran for 3 years and garnered audiences of over three million viewers.
Roth was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) from 2008 to 2012. He was Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege (OPL) for the 2009-2010 season. In September 2011, Roth became Principal Conductor of the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg. In February 2014, the orchestra announced the extension of Xavier-Roth's SWR orchestra contract through the 2015-2016 season (after which the orchestra is scheduled to be dissolved and merged with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra). In the same month, February 2014, the city of Cologne announced the appointment of Roth as its next Generalmusikdirektor (GMD), which includes duties as Gurzenich-Kapellmeister and chief conductor of the Cologne Opera. The appointment of Roth is effective on 1 September 2015, with an initial contract of 5 years.
Rameau les indes galantes bbc proms 2013
Discography
• Jean-Louis Agobet, dir. Francois-Xavier Roth, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Timpani Records (2005)
• Presto, dir. Francois-Xavier Roth, Les Siecles, Mirare (2007)
• Bizet - Chabrier, dir. Francois-Xavier Roth, Les Siecles, Mirare (2007) - Diapason Decouverte
• Saint-Saens - Chausson - Ysaye, dir. Francois-Xavier Roth, violon : Tedi Papavrami, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege, Aeon (2009)
• Thierry Pecou - La Symphonie du Jaguar, dir. Francois-Xavier Roth, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Harmonia Mundi (2009)
• Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique, dir. Francois-Xavier Roth, Les Siecles, «Les Siecles Live», Ed. Musicales Actes Sud, Distri. Harmonia Mundi (2010)
• Saint-Saens - Concerto pour piano n°3 et Symphonie n'°3 avec orgue, dir. Francois-Xavier Roth - Jean-Francois heisser, piano - Daniel Roth, orgue - Les Siecles, «Les Siecles Live», Ed. Musicales Actes Sud, Distri. Harmonia Mundi (2010)
• Matalon - Trames 2, 4 et 8, dir. Francois-Xavier Roth, Les Siecles, «Les Siecles Live», Ed. Musicales Actes Sud, Distri. Harmonia Mundi (2011)
• Stravinsky - "L'Oiseau de feu (ballet complet 1910)" Premier enregistrement sur instruments d'epoque - Les Siecles, « Les Siecles Live », Ed. Musicales Actes Sud, Distri. Harmonia Mundi (2011) - Preis der deutschen Schallplatten kritik, Edison Klassiek Prize 2012, Gramophone Choice
• Mahler / Webern - Symphonie n°1 "Titan", Im Sommerwind - SWR Sinfonie Orchester Baden Baden & Freiburg, Ed; Haenssler Classic, 2012
• Dubois - "Concerto pour piano" et "Ouverture de Frithiof" - Les Siecles, «Les Siecles Live», Ed. Musicales Actes Sud, Distri. Harmonia Mundi (2012)
• Liszt - Dante Symphonie & Orpheus - Les Siecles, «Les Siecles Live», Ed. Musicales Actes Sud, Distri. Harmonia Mundi (2012)
• Richard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben / Tod und Verklarung, SWR Sinfonie Orchester Baden Baden & Freiburg, Ed; Haenssler Classic, 2013
• Richard Strauss - Don Quixote / Till Eulenspiegel / Macbeth, SWR Sinfonie Orchester Baden Baden & Freiburg, Ed; Haenssler Classic, 2013
• Debussy - La Mer & Premiere Suite d'Orchestre (world premiere), Les Siecles, «Les Siecles Live », Ed. Musicales Actes Sud, Distri. Harmonia Mundi (2013)
• Dukas - L'Apprenti Sorcier / Cantate Velleda / Polyeucte, Les Siecles, «Les Siecles Live », Ed. Musicales Actes Sud, Distri. Harmonia Mundi (2013)
• Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) & Petrouchka (1911), First recording on period instruments. Reconstructed version of Le Sacre du Printemps as heard on 29 May 1913, by special permission of Boosey & Hawkes, Les Siecles, «Les Siecles Live », Ed. Musicales Actes Sud, Distri. Harmonia Mundi (2014)
• Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra / Aus Italien, SWR Sinfonie Orchester Baden Baden & Freiburg, Ed; Haenssler Classic, 2015
Songs
Sudden Squall - Sudden Shadow
from bursting suns escaping
Fanfare for a Newborn Child
Therma
Fleotan
Parallels II
Parallels I
Polyeucte: ouverture pour la tragedie de Corneille
Oscuro abismo de llanto y de ternura
L'Apprenti sorcier: scherzo
To Zeitblom
zirckel / richtscheyt / felscher
Little Smile
I Barstow
VI Death Valley Rd 127
VII Song of a Man about to Die in a Strange Land
III Death Valley Junction
IV The Death Song of White Antelope
II Nevada Desert
Kontra-Gewalt
VIII Mojave Desert Dry Lakebed
XI Song for Sunsets
V S Las Vegas Blvd
IX Death Valley Rd 127
Concerto No 3 for Violin and Orchestra in B Minor - Op 61: Allegro non troppo
Dardanus - Entree pour les Guerriers
Veleda: scene 3: “Velleda ! Dieux puissants ! C’est bien elle !”
Concerto pour orgue - orchestre a cordes et timbales en Sol Mineur
Ein Heldenleben - Op 40 - TrV 190: Der Held -
Symphonie francaise en fa mineur: I Largo – Allegro
Dardanus - Air en rondeau
Ein Heldenleben - Op 40 - TrV 190: Des Helden Friedenswerke -