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Pierre-André Valade

Conductor

  • expertly conducted by Pierre-André Valade
    Richard Morrison, Sunday Times
  • The Opera North orchestra, conducted by Pierre-André Valade, brought luminous sound and undulant pacing to much of the score
    Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
  • in an account as polished as Pierre-André Valade and the Philharmonia delivered, the work showed its true colours: revolutionary, brazen, with a visceral and imaginative force
    Geoff Brown, The Times

  • Pierre-André Valade was born in Corrèze, France in 1959. In 1991 he co-founded Ensemble Court-Circuit of which he was Music Director until January 2008. In September 2009, he was appointed Principal Conductor of Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, and from May 2012 will also act as its Artistic Co-Director. He has also been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain in 2013.

    He is especially well-known and 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 and Australia. Of his many recordings, discs of music by Grisey and Dufourt have both won the Diapason d’or de l’année 1999 and the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros.

    Orchestras he has worked with include the BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Philharmonia, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Saarbrucken Radio Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Basel Sinfonieorchester, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Accademia Nationale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino, Gulbenkian Lisbon, Tokyo Philharmonic, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, Northern Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia and Remix Portugal.

    Pierre-André Valade is represented worldwide by Andrew Rosner at Rayfield Allied.
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    • Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra
      March 2012

      Everything came together for Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra’s French Impressions concert: a programme balancing Gallic favourites with a symphonic curiosity, a top-notch French conductor and a soloist whose CV includes more than a decade’s music-making in Paris. Pierre-Andre Valade brought out both the ironies and the subtle rhythmic undercurrents of Ravel’ score, from the swirling Prelude, led by guest oboist Gordon Hunt to its final explosive Rigaudon...Roussel’s 1930 Symphony, delivered with astonishing panache by Valade, might look beyond France in its musical references but, at the same time, its orchestral brilliance and clarity stamp it as French. Valade and his players delighted in Roussel’s touches of Mahlerian rustic as well as a rumbustious Finale almost as discursive as Charles Ives...Ravel closed the evening with his La Valse in which Valade conjured up images of possessed danceers swaying and swooping to their doom.
      William Dart, New Zealand Herald

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    • Photographer Credit: Claude Dufetre
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