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.

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