LILLE

NATIONAL
ORCHESTRA

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Jean-Claude Casadesus

Jean-Claude Casadesus
After studying at the Paris Conservatoire, Jean-Claude Casadesus trained under two conductors, Pierre
Dervaux and Pierre Boulez. He was appointed musical director of the Thtre du Chtelet in 1965, and
in 1969 became resident conductor at the Opra de Paris and the Opra-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 Opra 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 Prsences.
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 Taipei, Montreal, Lisbon and Singapore.
An Ardent Defender of contemporary music, he received the Charles Cros Award for the first recording
of his Orchestra : The Premire Symphonie by Henri Dutilleux. He is President of Musique Nouvelle en
Libert (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
dAdam as a tribute to Olivier Greif published by Accord with the National Orchestra of France and Henri
Demarquette cello. He conducts his orchestra in their first educational DVD designed for teachers
Tableaux dune Exposition, entre musique et peinture based on the masterwork of Mussorgsky in
association with the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. He is the author of the book Le plus court chemin
dun coeur un autre (Stock). In 2012 a series of conversations between Jean-Claude Casadesus and
Frdric Gaussin entitled La partition dune vie was published by the ditions criture.
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 Franais des Jeunes until December 2007.
He is a Commandeur de la Lgion dHonneur, Commandeur de lOrdre National du Mrite and
Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, Commandeur de lOrdre Orange Nassau - Officier de lOrdre Lopold
de Belgique and Chevalier des Palmes Acadmiques.

orchestre national de lille

orchestre national de lille

The 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,
promote fresh talent, and educational and youth projects. International conductors and soloists are
invited by the orchestras 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 orchestras 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. In September 2013 they give their first concerts in Kazakhstan (in
Almaty and Astana).
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 lAnne du Monde de la
Musique in 2007). A second disc of music by Canteloube was awarded an Orphe dor by the Acadmie
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 dAuvergne, which was the Naxos labels international
best-selling disc in 2005. The Orchestre National de Lille is the first French orchestra to have recorded
Waltons 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 Cavannas 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).
In 2011 their Carmen under the baton of Jean-Claude Casadesus given in the Opra de Lille released in
DVD. In 2012 the Orchestre National de Lille with Jean-Claude Casadesus presented their first educational
DVD designed for teachers Tableaux dune Exposition, entre musique et peinture based on the masterwork
of Mussorgsky in association with the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

discography

Jean-Claude Casadesus conductor

Pierre Ancelin
Filius Hominis
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto / Romances
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique / LEnfance du Christ / Four Prix de Rome Cantatas / La Damnation de Faust
Hector Berlioz Les Nuits dt
Ernest Chausson Pome de lAmour et de la Mer
Paul Dukas La Pri
Georges Bizet
Suites from Carmen et LArlsienne / Cantate Clovis et Clotilde / Te Deum / ROMA Symphony
Bernard Cavanna
Shanghai Concerto / Trois strophes sur le nom de Patrice Emery Lumumba / Karl Koop Konzert
Joseph Canteloube
Chants dAuvergne / Chants dAuvergne II / Tryptique / Chants de France
Claude Debussy
Pellas et Mlisande / Nocturnes / La Damoiselle lue / La Mer
Thierry Escaich
Miroir dombres / Vertiges de la Croix / Chaconne
Arthur Honegger
King David
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue / Concerto en fa majeur / Porgy and Bess : A symphonic Picture
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder / Rckert Lieder / Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Symphony No.1 Titan / Symphony No.2 Resurrection
Symphony No.4 / Symphony No.5
Boxset Symphonies No.1, 2, 4, 5
Jules Massenet
Werther
Darius Milhaud
La Cration du Monde / Le Buf sur le toit / Suite provenale / LHomme et son Dsir

discography

Jean-Claude Casadesus conductor

Darius Milhaud / Le Groupe des Six

Les Maris de la Tour Eiffel / Le Buf sur le toit
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music / Clarinet concerto / Concerto for flute and harp
Francis Poulenc
La Voix humaine / Organ concerto / Concert champtre / Suite franaise
Serge Prokofiev
Alexander Nevsky / Lieutenant Kij (2006 version)
Maurice Ravel
Shhrazade / Pavane pour une Infante dfunte / Mlodies Hbraques / Daphnis et Chlo
Bolro / La Valse / Concerto for the left hand / Concerto in G
Fabrice Ravel-Chapuis et Jacques Trupin
Artango: Mtropole, un soir, suite for orchestra, piano and bandoneon
Richard Wagner
Famous overtures and monologues / Der fliegende Hollnder / Tannhuser
Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg / Die Walkre
William Walton
Symphonies 1 and 2
Marie Jall (soon available)

DVD

Darius Milhaud Les Chophores

Georges Bizet Carmen
Modest Mussorgsky Tableaux dune Exposition (Educational DVD)

bibliography

Jean-Claude Casadesus Le plus court chemin d'un cur un autre (Stock)

Jean-Claude Casadesus : La partition dune vie, a series of conversations with Frdric Gaussin
(ditions criture)

the musicians
solo violins Fernand Iaciu
violins Stefan Stalanowski / Lucyna Janeczek / Marc Crenne / Waldemar Kurkowiak / Franois Cantault / Alexandre
Diaconu Bernard Bodiou / Sylvaine Bouin / Benjamin Boursier / Bruno Caisse / Anne Cousu / Nol Cousu
Delphine Der Avedisyan / Asako Fujibayashi / Hlne Gaudfroy / Ins Greliak / Xin Gurinet / Thierry Koehl
Olivier Lentieul / Marie Lesage / Brigitte Loisemant / Catherine Mabile / Filippo Marano / Sylvie Nowacki
Stphane Pechereau / Pierre-Alexandre Pheulpin / Franck Pollet / Ken Sugita / Thierry Van Engelandt
Bruno Van Roy / Franoise Vernay
violas Philippe Loisemant / Paul Mayes Jean-Marc Lachkar Christina Blanco-Amavisca / Jean-Paul Blondeau
Vronique Boddaert / David Corselle / Franois Cousin / Anne Le Chevalier / Thierry Paumier / Mireille Viaud
N
cellos Jean-Michel Moulin / N N Sophie Broon / Edwige Della Valle / Dominique Magnier
Claire Martin / Alexei Milovanov / Johanna Oll / Jacek Smolarski
double basses Gilbert Dinaut / Mathieu Petit Pierre-Emmanuel de Maistre Yi Ching Ho / Kevin Lopata
Julia Petitjean / Christian Pottiez / N
flutes Chrystel Delaval / Christine Vienet Pascal Langlet / Catherine Roux (piccolo)
oboes Baptiste Gibier / Cyril Ciabaud Daniel Schirrer / Philippe Grard (cor anglais)
clarinets Claude Faucomprez / Christian Gossart Jacques Merrer (E flat clarinet) / Raymond Maton (bass clarinet)
bassoons Cllia Goldings / Jean-Nicolas Hoebeke Henri Bour / Jean-Franois Morel (contrabassoon)
horns Sbastien Tuytten / Alexandre Collard Christophe Danel / Frdric Hasbroucq / ric Lorillard
Katia Melleret
trumpets Denis Hu / Cdric Dreger Fabrice Rocroy (solo cornet) / Frdric Broucke (cornet)
trombones Romain Simon / Jean-Philippe Navrez Christian Briez / Yves Bauer (bass trombone)
tuba Herv Brisse
timpani Laurent Fraiche
percussion Romain Robine Christophe Marchal / Dominique Del Gallo / Ako Miyamoto
harp Anne Le Roy

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