Alain Lombard

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Alain Lombard - 1980

Alain Lombard (born October 4, 1940 in Paris ) is a French conductor .

Life

Alain Lombard began taking violin lessons at the age of seven and began taking piano and sheet music lessons the following year. At the age of nine he was accepted into the orchestral conducting class of Gaston Poulet (1892–1974) at the Paris Conservatory . He made his debut as a conductor at the age of 11, conducting the Orchester Pasdeloup in the Salle Gaveau in Paris . He began his professional conducting career in 1961 at the Opéra National de Lyon and then spent several years in the United States . In 1963 he made his first appearance as a conductor with Massenet's Hérodiade . In 1966 he won the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition and was a. a. Assistant to Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic . In 1967 he made his conducting debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Gounod's Faust and became music director in Miami . In 1971 he was appointed General Music Director of the Strasbourg Philharmonic , a post he held until 1983. In 1972 he initiated the creation of the Opéra du Rhin by merging the lyrical ensembles from Strasbourg , Colmar and Mulhouse . He became the artistic director of this new institution and de facto supreme master of classical music in all of Alsace . Contracts with EMI and Erato secured him a good reputation as a successful climber during this time. From the beginning of the 1980s, however, the Strasbourg Philharmonic was in less and less international demand. From 1981 to 1983 Lombard was also music director at the Opéra de Paris . From 1987/88 Lombard directed the Orchester National Bordeaux Aquitaine , since 1990 also the Opera of the City of Bordeaux . After the election of the newly elected Prime Minister Alain Juppé as Lord Mayor of Bordeaux, the conductor was dismissed from all his posts on November 20, 1995 for financial reasons. After a dry spell of four years, he led the Ticino Orchestra della Svizzera italiana from 1999 to 2005 and has been its honorary conductor ever since. From 2001 to 2003 he was musical director of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville .

Discography (operas)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christiane Spieth-Weissenbacher, Noël Goodwin:  Lombard, Alain. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ↑ Young conductors. In: The time . January 28, 1966, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Alain Lombard in: Encyclopédie Larousse
  4. ↑ Le chef d'orchestre Alain Lombard licencié par Alain Juppé ( Memento of December 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), L'Humanité , November 21, 1995
  5. ↑ Alain Lombard Limoge par Juppe. , Liberation , November 21, 1995
  6. ↑ OSI: Direttore onorario ( Memento of February 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lombard, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris