Jean-Claude Casadesus
Jean-Claude Casadesus (born December 7, 1935 in Paris ) is a French conductor .
The son of the actress Gisèle Casadesus and great-nephew of the pianist Robert Casadesus studied drums at the Conservatoire de Paris until 1958 . He composed film and drama music and learned conducting from Pierre Dervaux and Pierre Boulez . In 1969 he became conductor of the Opéra National de Paris and the Opéra-Comique . In 1971 he founded the Orchester Philharmonique des Pays de la Loire with Pierre Dervaux , of which he was director until 1976.
He then founded the Orchester National de Lille , with which he has worked since then and gives more than one hundred concerts worldwide every year. In addition, he is a guest conductor of the major symphony orchestras and major opera houses in Europe. He made more than twenty recordings with the Orchester National de Lille (including Gustav Mahler's Rückert-Lieder and Kindertotenlieder as well as the first , second , fourth and fifth symphonies , Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy and Clovis et Clotilde by Georges Bizet ).
family
His children are also creative, his daughter Caroline Casadesus is a singer, his son Olivier Casadesus is an actor and his son Sebastian Copeland is a photographer and documentary filmmaker. His nephew is the actor Orlando Bloom .
Fonts
- Le plus court chemin d'un coeur à un autre . Paris: Stock 1997. ISBN 978-2-23404754-9
- Autobiography.
Individual evidence
- ↑ - accessed on March 3, 2013 Sebastian Copeland website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casadesus, Jean-Claude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |