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Gallois
Concerts
June 13th
June 14th
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Patrick
Gallois
 Patrick
Gallois (flute) leads
a highly successful international career as flautist and conductor.
From the age of 17, he studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal at the Paris
Conservatory and at 21 was appointed First flute of the Orchestre
National de France when Lorin Maazel was Music Director. He has worked
under the direction of such legendary conductors as Leonard Bernstein,
Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Karl Boehm, Eugen Jochum, Sergiu Celibidache.
In 1984, Gallois left the orchestra to focus on his solo career.
He
regularly performs and records with such conductors as Sir Neville
Marriner, Lorin Maazel, Antal Dorati and Leif Segerstam and plays chamber
music with Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman, Peter Schreier, Jorg Demus, the
Lindsay Quartet and formerly with Jean Pierre Rampal and Lily Laskine. He
is frequently invited to perform with major orchestras throughout
Europe
and
Asia
, such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Monte
Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Capitole de Toulouse, Chamber Orchestra of
Lausanne, Orchestre National de Belgique, Helsinki Philharmonic, and the
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra; and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the
Oregon Symphony and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in
North America
. He has appeared at international music festivals including The Proms in
London
, Pollenca Festival and the Monte Carlo Printemps des Arts. He regularly
tours in
Germany
,
Japan
and
Israel
and gives annual master classes at the prestigious Academia Chigiana
(Sienna) and the Banff Centre for the Arts (
Canada
).
For
the last twelve years, Patrick Gallois has developed a conducting career
which has taken him to
Japan
,
Finland
,
Sweden
,
Italy
,
California
in the
USA
,
Portugal
,
Israel
,
Romania
,
Bulgaria
and his native
France
. He was appointed Musical Director of Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä (
Finland
) in 2003. Since then, he has toured with the orchestra in
France
in 2003,
Poland
and
Japan
in 2004,
France
and
Spain
in summer 2005,
Spain
in spring 2006, and
Germany
and
Japan
again during 2006/7. With regular recording contracts for
Naxos
, Gallois and Sinfonia Finlandia have recorded the two Symphonies of
Charles Gounod, and the first discs in a series of Haydn symphonies.
Patron
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Vice-Presidents
The Countess of
Leicester
, The Marquess of Cholmondeley,
Lord Simon of Highbury, Lord Broers
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