Laurence Equilbey
Laurence Equilbey is a
conductor, music director (Accentus), and a well-known
chamber choir. Actually respected for her demand and
open artistic view, her work for 15 years conducted her
among symphonic chiefs qualified for their valuation in
oratorio or opera.
As important works : Cenerentola by Rossini at
Festival d’Aix en Provence, Medeamaterial by
Pascal Dusapin au Festival Musica, Les Tréteaux de
Maître Pierre and l'Amour Sorcier by
Manuel de Falla, at Opéra de Rouen. Created and
conducted by herself, Mozart Short Cuts at
Luxembourg and Cité de la Musique (Paris), is staged by
Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeieff, and took up again
in Provence (2009) with the Orchestre of the Age of
Enlightenment, and collaborating with the Grand
Théâtre. In 2009, she conducts Albert Herring
by Britten, staging by Richard Brunel, at Opéra de
Rouen and Opéra-Comique.
Guest artist at the Opéra de Rouen Haute Normandie,
Laurence Equilbey conducts many projects with her
orchestra such as Lieder with
orchestra by Schubert. In 2008 she conducts
musicians of the Orchestre National d’Ile de France and
Accentus in Fauré’s Requiem (Naïve
recording) and Pascal Dusapin’s Dona
eis. In February 2010 with Accentus at
Cité de la Musique (Paris), she conducts
the Brussels Philharmonic, and the Chœur de la
Radio Flamande in Schumann’s Le Paradis
et la Péri, that she stages with André Wilms
and Hervé Audibert. Her symphonic activities conduct
her to take the baton of main orchestras such as Lyon
and Nice. Since 2009/2010, she is associated
artist at the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, with whom
she works Berlioz’s l’Enfance du Christ
at Pleyel in September 2010, and a Mendelssohn
recording.
In 2010/11, she will conduct Weber’s
Freischütz in Toulon, Ravel’s L’Enfant et
les Sortilèges in Taïwan, staged by Pierrick
Sorin, and Mozart’s Flûte enchantée in
Avignon.
With Accentus, she keeps expressing the large repertory
of vocal music and supports contemporary creation.
Their many recordings are widely acclaimed. She was
also awarded a “Disque d’Or” in 2008 for
Transcriptions, which sold very well (more
than 130,000 copies worldwide), and her interpretation
of Haydn’s Sept Dernières Paroles du Christ
with the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin is considered
as a reference in the discography today. Their last
record Strauss a cappella with the Latvian
Radio Choir is, with no other contest, their most
recognizable signature. This year, she and Accentus
will play a demanding programme with
Stockhausen/Schönberg and will create a work of Mathias
Pintscher.
In 2002, Laurence Equilbey founded the educative
department Le Jeune Choeur de Paris for young
singers at the Paris Regional Conservatory. With
Accentus she created the European network
Tenso. Her last creation is an electronically
diapason (e-tuner), allowing musicians to
acceed to tons 1/4 and 1/3 and to reach out of the
moderate system in an intuitive way.
Laurence Equilbey studied music at Paris, Vienna and
London, and conducting with Eric Ericson, Denise Ham,
Colin Metters and Jorma Panula. She was elected
Musical Personality of the year 2000 by the Union of
drama and music critique. She is also rewarded in
Sweden as an international musical personality. In 2003
she is Laureate of the Grand Prix of international
music critic, Chevalier de l’Ordre de l’Etoile
Polaire, international music personality in
Sweden, and in 2006 Cultures France elected her
Créateur sans frontière for classical and
contemporary music.
www.laurenceequilbey.com
General agent : Véronique Jourdain Artists Management –
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