ARTIST

ARTIST

Pierre Bleuse(Conductor)

Pierre Bleuse is the Music Director of the Ensemble intercontemporain and the Odense Symphony Orchestra, which he has led since 2021. He is also the Artistic Director of the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades.
He opened the 2025/2026 season with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the prestigious BBC Proms in London, as well as at the Ravel Festival in Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Philharmonie de Paris. He then made his debut with renowned orchestras such as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester in Hamburg, the SWR Symphonieorchester in Stuttgart alongside his long-time collaborator Sol Gabetta, as well as the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand.

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A highly sought-after French conductor, he collaborates regularly with many of the world’s leading ensembles, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and the radio symphony orchestras of Hanover (NDR), Leipzig (MDR), and Frankfurt (HR). A prominent figure in contemporary music, he conducted Hector Parra’s opera Orgia at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in 2024, then again at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2025. He opened the centenary celebrations of Pierre Boulez’s birth with the Ensemble intercontemporain, conducting a landmark performance of his masterpiece Répons.
He regularly works with major international soloists such as Joyce DiDonato, Karita Mattila, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Sol Gabetta, Bertrand Chamayou, Emmanuel Pahud, and Renaud and Gautier Capuçon. He has participated in numerous recordings, including a widely acclaimed album dedicated to György Ligeti, recorded with the Ensemble intercontemporain, which was awarded a Diapason d'Or of the Year in 2025.
Pierre Bleuse studied conducting under Jorma Panula in Finland and Laurent Gay at the Haute École de Musique de Genève.

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