Sneha Girap (Editor)

Laurent Petitgirard

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Laurent Petitgirard

Role
  
Composer


Spouse
  
Sonia Petrovna

Children
  
Tristan Petitgirard

Laurent Petitgirard Flickriver Most interesting photos tagged with henriverneuil

Albums
  
Maigret, Great Trombone Concertos

Movies
  
Le batteur du Bolero, Concert in Versailles


Born
  
10 June 1950 (age 71), Paris, France

Similar
  
Sonia Petrovna, Bruno Coulais, Paul Paray

Laurent petitgirard erick friedman with david dubal 9 16 83


Laurent Petitgirard (born 10 June 1950 in Paris) is a French classical composer and conductor.

Contents

Laurent Petitgirard cpsstaticrovicorpcom3JPG400MI0003621MI000

Laurent petitgirard le petit prince the little prince excerpt


Biography and career

Laurent Petitgirard Thtre de Verdure RAMATUELLE l39actualit de l

Laurent Petitgirard studied piano with Serge Petitgirard and composition with Alain Kremski. He has worked as conductor with dozens of orchestras, including the Paris Opera Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre National de France, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, National Orchestra of Spain, Moscow State Orchestra, China National Symphonic Orchestra and many others. In 1989 he founded the Orchestre Symphonique Français which he conducted until 1996, and also directed the Festival and the Academy of Flaine from 1986 to 1997. He has been the music director of the Orchestre Colonne, in Paris, since December 2004.

Laurent Petitgirard LAURENT PETITGIRARD compositeur et chef d39orchestre

Petitgirard has recorded dozens of CDs of music by a variety of composers, such as Honegger, Ravel, Dukas, Debussy, Saint-Saëns and others.

Laurent Petitgirard LAURENT PETITGIRARD compositeur et chef d39orchestre

As composer, Petitgirard has written scores for films by Otto Preminger, Jacques Demy, Francis Girod, Peter Kassovitz, Pierre Granier Deferre, and many others, with many of his film soundtracks being released on CD.

Petitgirard's first opera, Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man, was premiered in 2002 by the Prague State Opera, with Petitgirard conducting. Petigirard later recorded the opera for the Naxos label with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and with Nathalie Stutzmann in the title role.

Other works by Petigirard include Le Fou d'Elsa, a cycle of six songs to poems by Louis Aragon for mezzo and orchestra, Le Plus Ardent à Vivre, a septet with harp, Poème for large string orchestra, and Dialogue for viola and orchestra. Petitgirard's second opera, Guru, was released on the Naxos label in 2011. Many of his other works are also available on the Naxos label, with the composer conducting.

Petitgirard has received a number of prizes, including the Young Composer’s Prize of the SACD in 1987, the SACEM Prize in 1990, the Grand Prix Lycéen for Composers in 2000 for his Cello Concerto, and the Prix Musique 2001 of the SACD for his opera Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. In December 2000 he was elected Member of the French Institute, and elected President of the Academy in January 2011.

Laurent Petitgirard is a "Commandeur des Arts et Lettres" and a "Chevalier de La Légion d'Honneur".

References

Laurent Petitgirard Wikipedia


Similar Topics