Stéphane Denève
Stéphane Denève (born November 24, 1971 in Tourcoing ( France )) is a French conductor . From 2011 to 2016 he was chief conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra . He has been leading the Brussels Philharmonic since 2015 .
Life
Stéphane Denève studied at the Paris Conservatory .
After working as a répétiteur with the choir of the Orchester de Paris under the direction of Arthur Oldham , in 1995, also with the Orchester de Paris, he was assistant to Georg Solti at the resumption of Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle .
He then assisted Solti in 1996 in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Paris Opera .
At the same opera house, Denève assisted Georges Prêtre in 1997 in the preparation of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot . At the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto in 1998 he was Seiji Ozawa's assistant in the preparation of Francis Poulenc's opera Dialogues des Carmélites and made his debut as a conductor at the Santa Fe Opera in the USA in 1999 with this work .
From September 2005 to 2012 Stéphane Denève was Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO). Since 2011 he has been chief conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , and the first contract ran until the end of the 2013/2014 season. Denève stayed in Stuttgart until 2015. Since then he has been chief conductor of the Brussels Philharmonic .
In addition to his work in Stuttgart, Stéphane Denève is in demand worldwide as a guest conductor and directs a. a. regular orchestras in Boston , Chicago , Los Angeles , San Francisco , Cleveland and Philadelphia . He also conducted the BBC Proms and was a guest at La Scala in Milan .
Denève has been married to Åsa Masters since July 2007, their daughter Alma was born in 2008.
Web links
- Stéphane Denève homepage
- Stéphane Denève on imgartists.com
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| SURNAME | Denève, Stéphane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1971 |