Jean-Claude CasadesusAfter studying at the Paris Conservatoire, Jean-Claude Casadesus trained under two conductors, Pierre Dervaux and Pierre Boulez. He was appointed musical director of the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1965, and in 1969 became resident conductor at the Opéra de Paris and the Opéra-Comique. He was one of the founders of the Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, and served as assistant director until 1976, when he established the Orchestre National de Lille. Under his direction, the orchestra has brought their wide repertoire, dynamism and artistic integrity to audiences in four continents and thirty countries.

At the same time, he has pursued an international career and is regularly invited to conduct orchestras in Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Montreal, St. Petersburg, London, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, as well as the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Berliner Symphoniker. He also conducts opera on a regular basis in Monte Carlo and Trieste, with the Orchestre de Paris, Flanders Opera and of course, the Opéra de Lille, where he conducted Carmen in 2010 (DVD release in May 2011). He recently appeared with the Orchestre National de France at the 2009 Festival Présences.

After China (2007 and the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai) and a triumphant tour in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia (2009), Jean-Claude Casadesus toured with his orchestra as part of the France-Russia year in 2010. Future engagements lead him to Moscow, Ankara, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Taiwan and even Montreal.

An Ardent Defender of contemporary music, he received the Charles Cros Award for the first recording of his Orchestra : The Première Symphonie by Henri Dutilleux. He is President of Musique Nouvelle en Liberté (Association for the support and promotion of contemporary music). In 2001 he created a in-residence composers post, and appointed Bruno Mantovani for 3 years (from 2008 to 2011).

Jean-Claude Casadesus has made thirty recordings with the Orchestre National de Lille, which has received a number of awards. Recently he was rewarded with a “choc Classica” for the CD Par la chute d’Adam as a tribute to Olivier Greif published by Accord with the National Orchestra of France and Henri Demarquette cello. He is the author of the book Le plus court chemin d’un coeur à un autre (Stock). In 2004 he was awarded a Victoire d’Honneur at the Victoires de la Musique Classique.

Jean-Claude Casadesus is director of the Orchestre National de Lille, director of “lille piano(s) festival”. He served as musical director of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes until December 2007. He is a Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur, Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Mérite and Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, Commandeur de l’Ordre Orange Nassau - Officier de l’Ordre Léopold de Belgique and Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.

Orchestre National de LilleThe Orchestre National de Lille was established with the backing of the Nord-Pas de Calais region and state support in 1976, and since that date has pursued an ambitious artistic outreach policy, on the initiative of Jean-Claude Casadesus. Its aims are to make the repertoire better known, foster new music (particularly by appointing composers-in-residence, such as this season’s Bruno Mantovani, the 2009 Victoires de la Musique Classique’s “composer of the year”), promote fresh talent, and educational and youth projects. International conductors and soloists are invited by the orchestra’s director to collaborate in what he defines as “taking music to everywhere it can go”.

Over a period of thirty years, the Orchestre National de Lille has thus established itself as no less than an ambassador for the region and for French culture, whether at home in France, abroad or in the nearly two hundred local authorities that make up the Nord-Pas de Calais region and which, in a model example of decentralisation, it sustains musically. The orchestra’s work has taken it to four continents and more than thirty countries. After China (2007 and the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai) and a triumphant tour in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia (2009), the orchestra and Jean-Claude Casadesus toured in Russia (five concerts) as part of the France-Russia year in 2010.

The Orchestre National de Lille makes regular broadcasts on radio and television and its dynamic approach in the recording studio is demonstrated by a recent disc devoted to the music of Thierry Escaich, composer-in-residence between 2003 and 2005 (it won a Choc de l’Année du Monde de la Musique in 2007). A second disc of music by Canteloube was awarded an Orphée d’or by the Académie du disque lyrique and the Prix SACD for the best recording of music by a French composer. This followed on from the first volume of the Chants d’Auvergne, which was the Naxos label’s international best-selling disc in 2005. The Orchestre National de Lille is the first French orchestra to have recorded Walton’s two symphonies, just appeared on the BIS label. The orchestra released a cd devoted to Bizet (Clovis and Clotilde, Te Deum) under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus with Naxos (November 2010) and participated in Bernard Cavanna’s cd (composer-in-residence from 2005 to 2008) through the Shanghai Concerto and Karl Koop Konzert under the direction of Peter Rundel and Grant Llewellyn at Aeon (January 2011).

discographyJean-Claude Casadesus conductor

Ludwig van BeethovenViolin Concerto / Romances - Jean-Pierre Wallez (Forlane FF 054)

Hector BerliozSymphonie fantastique (Harmonia Mundi HMA 195072)

L’Enfance du Christ (Naxos 8.553650 / 1)Lagrange, Viala, Piquemal, Bernardi, Garcin, Vandier, Serre

Four Prix de Rome Cantatas (Naxos 8.555810)Lagrange, Uria-Monzon, Galvez Vallejo

La Damnation de Faust (Naxos 8.660116 / 17)Todorovitch, Myers, Vernhes, SchirrerPrix Mado Robin (Fondation J. Ibert) – Académie du disque lyrique

Hector Berlioz Les Nuits d’Été - Elsa MaurusErnest Chausson Poème de l’Amour et de la MerPaul Dukas La Péri(Naxos 8.557274)

Georges BizetSuites from Carmen et L’Arlésienne (Forlane UCD 16533)

Clovis et Clotilde (Apex 09274.89952)Caballé, Garino, Martinovic

Clovis et Clotilde / Te Deum (Naxos 8.572270)Jovanovic, Do, Schnaible

Bernard CavannaShanghai Concerto / Karl Koop Konzert (Aeon)Schindler, Bertrand, Contet, Rundel, Llewellyn

discographyJean-Claude Casadesus conductor

Joseph CanteloubeChants d'Auvergne (Naxos 8.557491 F) - Véronique Gens

Tryptique / Chants de France / Chants d’Auvergne (Naxos 8.570338)Prix de la SACD – Académie du disque lyrique

Claude DebussyPelléas et Mélisande (Naxos 8.660047 / 9)Delunsch, Théruel, Arapian, Bacquier, Jossoud, Golfier, DoumènePrix Massenet – Académie du disque lyrique

Nocturnes / La Damoiselle élue / La Mer (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901490)Delunsch, Sullé

Thierry EscaichMiroir d’ombres / Vertiges de la Croix / Chaconne (Accord 442 9057)Renaud et Gautier Capuçon, Paul Polivnick, Michiyoshi Inoué

George GershwinRhapsody in Blue / Concerto en fa majeur / Porgy and Bess : A symphonic Picture (Transart)

Gustav MahlerKindertotenlieder / Rückert Lieder / Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Forlane UCD 16553)Jose Van Dam baryton - Laser d’or de l’Académie du disque français

Symphony No.1 “Titan” (Forlane UCD 16643) - Grand prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque

Symphony No.2 “Resurrection” (Forlane UCD 16654 / 55) - Ewa Podles, Teresa Zylis-Gara

Symphony No.4 (Forlane UCD 16563)Margaret Marshall - Grand prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque

Symphony No.5 (Forlane UCD 16609) – Grand prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque

Symphonies and Lieder (Forlane Boxset COD 454)

Jules MassenetWerther (Naxos 8.660072 / 73)Haddock, Uria-Monzon, Massis, Azzaretti, Marlière, Bou, Delescluse

Darius MilhaudSuite provençale / La Création du Monde / Le Bœuf sur le toit / L’Homme et son Désir(Naxos 8.557287)

discographyJean-Claude Casadesus conductor

Darius Milhaud / Le Groupe des SixLes Mariés de la Tour Eiffel / Le Bœuf sur le toit (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901473)

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartMasonic Funeral Music / Clarinet concerto / Concerto for flute and harp (Forlane UCD 16547)Claude Faucomprez, Chrystel Delaval, Laurence Cabel

Francis PoulencLa Voix Humaine (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901474) - Françoise PolletPrix Gabriel Fauré / Fondation Canteloube / Académie du disque lyrique

Suite française / Concert champêtre / Organ concerto (Naxos 8.554241)Philippe Lefebvre, Elisabeth Chojnacka

Serge ProkofievLieutenant Kijé / Alexander Nevsky (Naxos 8.557725)Ewa Podles

Maurice RavelShéhérazade / Mélodies Hébraïques / Daphnis et Chloé / Pavane pour une Infante défunte(Harmonia Mundi HMP 190064)

Concerto in G / La Valse / Boléro / Concerto for the left hand (Harmonia Mundi HMA 1951434) Georges Pludermacher

Fabrice Ravel-Chapuis et Jacques TrupinArtango: Métropole, un soir, suite for orchestra, piano and bandoneon(Virgin Classics 7243 5 45347 2)

Richard WagnerFamous overtures and monologues / Der fliegende Holländer / TannhäuserDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Die Walküre (Forlane UCD 16633) - José Van Dam

William WaltonSymphonies 1 and 2 (BIS-SACD-1646)

bibliographyJean-Claude Casadesus Le plus court chemin d'un cœur à un autre (Stock)

the musicianssolo violins Stefan Stalanowski / Fernand Iaciu

violins Lucyna Janeczek / Marc Crenne / Waldemar Kurkowiak / François Cantault / Alexandre Diaconu •Bernard Bodiou / Sylvaine Bouin / Benjamin Boursier / Bruno Caisse / Anne Cousu / Noël CousuDelphine Der Avedisyan / Asako Fujibayashi / Hélène Gaudfroy / Inès Greliak / Xin Guérinet / Thierry KoehlOlivier Lentieul / Marie Lesage / Brigitte Loisemant / Catherine Mabile / Filippo Marano / Sylvie NowackiStéphane Pechereau / Pierre-Alexandre Pheulpin / Franck Pollet / Ken Sugita / Thierry Van EngelandtBruno Van Roy / Françoise Vernay

violas Philippe Loisemant / Paul Mayes • Jean-Marc Lachkar •Christina Blanco-Amavisca / Jean-Paul Blondeau / Véronique Boddaert / David Corselle / François CousinAnne Le Chevalier / Lionel Part / Thierry Paumier / Mireille Viaud

cellos Jean-Michel Moulin / Valentin Arcu • Catherine Martin • Sophie Broïon / Edwige Della ValleDominique Magnier / Claire Martin / Alexei Milovanov / Johanna Ollé / Jacek Smolarski

double basses Gilbert Dinaut / Mathieu Petit • Pierre-Emmanuel de Maistre • Yi Ching Ho / Kevin Lopata Édouard Macarez / Julia Petitjean / Christian Pottiez

flutes Chrystel Delaval / Christine Vienet • Pascal Langlet / Catherine Roux (piccolo)

oboes Philippe Cousu / Baptiste Gibier • Daniel Schirrer / Philippe Gérard (cor anglais)

clarinets Claude Faucomprez / Christian Gossart • Jacques Merrer (E flat clarinet) / Raymond Maton (bass clarinet)

bassoons Clélia Goldings / Jean-Nicolas Hoebeke • Henri Bour / Jean-François Morel (contrabassoon)

horns Christophe Danel / Sébastien Tuytten • Frédéric Hasbroucq / Éric Lorillard / Katia Melleret / N…

trumpets Denis Hu / Cédric Dreger • Fabrice Rocroy (solo cornet) / Frédéric Broucke (cornet)

trombones Romain Simon / Jean-Philippe Navrez • Christian Briez / Yves Bauer (bass trombone)

tuba Hervé Brisse

timpani Laurent Fraiche

percussion Romain Robine • Christophe Maréchal / Dominique Del Gallo / Aïko Miyamoto

harp Anne Le Roy

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