2012 Summer training session
9 to 21 July
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
Rehearsals at the Grand Théâtre de Provence from 9 to 19 July
In 2010 the Aix Festival and the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra (OJM) joined forces with the Festival's resident orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, to create an Orchestral Academy. Among the Academy's aims was to create an orchestra that would get together in July for the Aix Festival and act as a symphonic orchestral training-ground for young professionals. This is the way the OJM's summer training sessions will be held in the future. The orchestra is supervised by a 9-musicians pedagogical team from the LSO who play alongside the young musicians in concerts directed by internationally renowned conductors.
In 2012, the orchestra brings together ninety-two advanced students recruited by the OJM in conservatories and National Youth Orchestras from the PACA region and the Mediterranean, and also nine professional musicians from the LSO. At the end of the rehearsal period, two concerts are given at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and in Marseille.
Programme
Vlad Maistorovici - Halo
Maurice Ravel - Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Richard Strauss - Heldenleben
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
Nicolas Simon, assistant conductor
Concerts
20 July : Aix Festival, Grand Théâtre de Provence
21 July : Marseille, Théâtre Silvain
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
François-Xavier Roth is one of the most charismatic and enterprising conductors of his generation. His vast repertoire extends from 17th century music to contemporary premieres, from symphonic or operatic works to ensemble music. As well as founding an original orchestra les Siècles, he is Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and also enjoys special relations with the London Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France which he frequently conducts. He has been appointed Musical Director of the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg beginning in 2011-2012. François-Xavier Roth studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Alain Marion and Janos Fürst. In 2000 he won first prize at the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London and was appointed assistant conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for two seasons.
Nicolas Simon, assistant conductor
Trained as a violinist born in 1981, Nicolas Simon is graduated by the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMD) in orchestral conducting. He founded in 2000 the ensemble Vibrations, a string orchestra that he’s conducting for numerous concerts in France and abroad. He participated in several master classes with P. Boulez, A. van Beek, G. Contratto, P.-A. Valade, D. My, and conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Auvergne, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Orchestre de Bretagne, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Ensemble Court Circuit, the Ensemble FA, the Janackova Philharmonic of Ostrava (Czech Réplublique) and the Orchestra of Miskolc (Hungary). Since summer 2010, he is assistant conductor for the French Youth Orchestra.
The 2012 summer training session is organized in partnership with:
Aix Festival
LSO Discovery
with the support of:
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional cultural authority
