Claire Levacher is a French orchestral conductor.[1]
Career
editLevacher won three first prizes at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) and a Master's degree in conducting at the University of Michigan and then advanced her skills at the Vienna Musikhochschule with Leopold Hager. She won the International Conducting Competition in Treviso (Italy) and the second prize at the International Conducting Competition in Prague in 2000.[2][3]
From 2001 to 2011, she was musical director of the CNSMDP's Laureates Orchestra (Orchestre des Lauréats) and professor of conducting at the CNSMDP.[4] She was regularly invited to conduct the various CNSMDP orchestras and prepare them for conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, Myung-Whun Chung.
She was invited to lead orchestras in France (Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Orchestre de Région de Bayonne-Côte Basque, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestre symphonique d'Orléans,[5] Opéra national du Rhin[2]), in the Czech Republic (Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Academy Orchestra, Severočeská filharmonie of Teplice), in Hungary (Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest), in Italy (Filarmonia Veneta Orchestra[6][failed verification]) and in Austria (in Vienna and at the Bregenzer Festspiele[7]). She is also regularly invited to conduct the Lebanese National Orchestra and various national orchestras in South America.
In the opera field, she has been assistant conductor at the Opéra de Nice, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the Opéra de Lyon. She has been musical director of various opera productions, including the Prague State Opera.
Since October 2020, she is professor of orchestral education at the University of Graz (Kunstuniversität Graz) in Austria.[4]
She is a Knight of the French award Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
References
edit- ^ "Claire Levacher, Dirigent". operabase.com. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Claire Levacher, Chef d'orchestre". Opéra national du Rhin. Archived from the original on 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
- ^ "Pour Claire Levacher, cheffe d'orchestre, "seul compte l'appel de la musique"". Magcentre.fr. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
- ^ a b "Von Pult und Partitur". Aircampus, Padcasts der Grazer Universitäten. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
- ^ "Claire Lavacher : une femme chef d'orchestre dirigera l'OSO en janvier 2020". Orchestre Symphonique d'Orléans. Archived from the original on 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
- ^ "Orchestra Regionale Filarmonia Veneta" (in Italian). Retrieved 28 December 2018.
- ^ "Mit dem Fokus auf die Intensität des Augenblicks – erfolgreiche Uraufführung der ausdrucksstarken Oper "To the lighthouse" von Zesses Seglias bei den Bregenzer Festspielen". Kultur, Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft. 2017-08-17. Archived from the original on 2017-09-04. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
External links
edit- Official website
- Claire Levacher on Hanoigrapevine
- Claire Levacher on Opera Musica
- Orchestre National du Vietnam Direction: Claire Levacher (YouTube)
