Patrick Gallois

Patrick Gallois (born April 17, 1956 in Linselles near Lille ) is a French flautist and conductor .

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At the age of 17 Gallois was accepted into Jean-Pierre Rampal's flute class at the Paris Conservatory , the first prize of which he won two years later. There he also took lessons from Maxence Larrieu . At the age of 21 he received a post as solo flutist in the Paris National Orchestra , then under the direction of Lorin Maazel . After seven years, he gave up this position in 1984 to pursue a solo career, which has since taken him to concert halls all over the world. Gallois worked with Leonard Bernstein , Seiji Ozawa , Pierre Boulez , Karl Böhm , Eugen Jochum , Sergiu Celibidache , Neville Marriner and other conductors. In chamber music projects he played with Juri Baschmet , Natalja Gutman , Peter Schreier , Jörg Demus and the Lindsay Quartet , but above all with his former teacher Rampal and the harpist Lily Laskine . His discography, published by Deutsche Grammophon and Naxos , includes more than 75 titles.

Patrick Gallois was and is a guest at numerous festivals and has been invited by many orchestras, for example the Sinfonia Varsovia or the London Mozart Players . Tours have taken him to Germany , Israel and Japan . He organizes master classes every year .

Since the mid-1990s, Gallois has also been active as a conductor, with a broad repertoire with a focus on English , French and Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries . He founded and directed the Ensemble L'Academie de Paris and was guest conductor of various orchestras in Asia , Europe and the USA . From 2003 to 2012 he conducted the symphony orchestra of the Finnish city of Jyväskylä , the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä , and has given guest appearances with him in several European countries and Japan.

Since 1999 he has been giving regular summer master classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.