Pierre Dumoussaud Musical director

Biography

A bassoonist with a passion for the symphonic repertoire, Pierre Dumoussaud trained as a conductor at the Paris Conservatoire until 2014, when he was awarded the first prize in the ADAMI “Talents conductors” competition.

The following year, he replaced Alain Lombard at short notice for a concert at the head of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, of which he was assistant conductor from 2014 to 2016, conducting several operatic productions (Don Carlo, Semiramide, The Turn of the Screw, La Voix Humaine, Werther) and ballets (Cendrillon, Roméo et Juliette, Giselle...).

He has conducted the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Karajan Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Orchestre National d’Auvergne, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, the Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre National de Metz, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, …

Revealed on the opera scene when he won the International Competition for Opera Conductors organised by the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in 2017, he was awarded the first Victoire de la Musique “Revelation Conductor” in 2022. The same year, he was awarded the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

He has conducted, among other productions, Madama Butterfly in Rouen, Iphigénie en Tauride in Montpellier, Mignon at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Hamlet at Komische Oper in Berlin, Lucia di Lammermoor in Bergame, La Belle Hélène in Lausanne, Faust and Pénélope in Athens.

During the 2023/24 season, he conducted The Tales of Hoffmann at the Opéra national du Rhin and Les Pêcheurs de Perles at the Opéra de Dijon. He also conducted concerts alongside the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo, the Orchestre Symphonique Région Centre-Val de Loire and the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie.

At the Paris Opera: Tribute to Roland Petit (2021); Manon, 2023; Hamlet, 2023

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