Pierre-Andrรฉ Valade
Pierre-Andrรฉ Valade was born in Corrรจze, France in 1959. In 1991 he co-founded the Paris based Ensemble Court-Circuit of which he was Music Director for 16 years until 2008. He was Principal Conductor of Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen from 2009 to 2014. He currently has an active career as a guest conductor whilst continuing his relationship with Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen as a regular guest conductor. He was also appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Lyon based Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain in 2013 and has held the position of Conductor in Residence at the Meitar Ensemble in Tel-Aviv since 2014.
He is especially admired for his performances of repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries, and receives regular invitations from major festivals and orchestras in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Of his many recordings, Griseyโs Les Espaces Acoustiques has been singled out for particular praise and won both the Diapason dโor de lโannรฉe 1999 and the Grand Prix de lโAcadรฉmie Charles Cros, which he won again in 2008 for three other recordings. His more recent CDs include works by Hugues Dufourt (winner Diapason dโOr and Choc du Monde de la Musique), and Harrison Birtwistleโs Theseus Game for Deutsche Grammophon, a piece he premiered in Duisburg and conducted at the Southbank Centre, BBC Proms, Huddersfield Festival, Lucerne International Festival and in Berlin.
Current and future highlights include his debut with La Scala Orchestra in Milan as well as a collaboration with LโOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in the 14/15 season. Last year, he conducted several concerts as a tribute to Witold Lutosลawski, including a concert with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra which was chosen to be published on the CD of the Lutosลawski Jubilee Concerts.
A regular guest conductor with the Tonhalle Orchester Zรผrich, other orchestras include BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Philharmonia, Ulster, RTE National Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Gรถteborgs Symfoniker, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Norrbotten NEO, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de Paris, Saarbrucken Radio Symphony, Athens State Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orchestra della RAI Torino, Accademia Nationale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Ensemble Intercontemporain, London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Bit 20, Bodo Sinfonietta, Contrechamps Geneve, the Asko Schoenberg Ensemble, I Pomeriggi Musicale, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony and the Philharmoniaโs Music of Today series and Ensemble Modern.
He conducted his BBC Proms debut in 2001, and has also appeared at the Aldeburgh, Bath International, Holland, Strasbourg Musica, Oslo Ultima, Monte Carlo Le Printemps des Arts, Nice Manca, Paris Ircam Agora, Radio-France Prรฉsences, Perth and Sydney festivals.
In January 2001 he was awarded Chevalier dans lโOrdre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.
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