Fayçal Karoui (born 1971), is a conductor of Tunisian descent. He won a prize at the 1991 Besançon International Young Conductors Competition and first prize in conducting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in 1997. The Aïda scholarship that year gave him the chance to work under

Michel Plasson Michel Plasson (born 2 October 1933, Paris, France) is a French conductor. Plasson was a student of Lazare Lévy at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1962, he was a prize-winner at the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors. ...

and the Orchestre National du Capitole de

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, and the following June he was appointed Plasson’s assistant. The music director of the Orchestra Philharmonique de Pau from 1997, he conducted the

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, the Orchestra de l’Opéra National de Paris, the Orchestra National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestra National de

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and the Orchestra National de

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, as well as the

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Chamber Orchestra, the Young French Artists’ Orchestra, the Académie de Saint-Louis en l’Ile Orchestra of Paris, the Orchestre de Picardie and the Orchestre National de

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. He was the

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's music director from December 2006 to spring 2012. the fifth since its inception in 1948. Since January 2011, he is the music director of the

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Discography

* l'Orchestre de Pau Pays du Béarn with

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(piano) **

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: ''Concerto pour piano et orchestre'' **

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

: ''Concerto pour piano et orchestre n°2'' *** Mirare (ref.MIR135) * l'Orchestre de Pau Pays du Béarn with Isabelle Georges (voice) and l'ensemble Sirba Octet **''Yiddish Rhapsody'' *** Ambroisie (ref.AM191), 2009 * l'Orchestre de Pau Pays du Béarn with Smaïn ** Sergueï Prokofiev: ''Pierre et le Loup'' *** Intrada (ref.INTRA011), 2004 * l'Orchestre des Jeunes d'Ile-de-France with Maciej Pikulski (piano) **

Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...

: ''Concerto for piano and orchestre n°2'' ** with piano solo pieces of

and

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...

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References

External links

''Fayçal Karoui''
Columbia Artists Management Inc. *
biography on Columbia Artists Management's website
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''Fayçal Karoui''
Solea Management website
''Fayçal Karoui prend la direction de l'orchestre parisien Lamoureux''
SudOuest, February 1, 2011
''Fayçal Karoui un grand chef d’orchestre de Pau vient de nous quitter à 50 ans''
Citoyens des deux rives, April 11, 2010 10:52
Fayçal Karoui son coeur bat toujours pour Pau
La Républiquedes Pyrénées, July 1, 2011
biography
on Concerts website
television interview

biography on l'Orchestre de pau website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Karoui, Faycal 1967 births Musicians from Paris Ballet conductors New York City Ballet Living people French people of Tunisian descent Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 21st-century conductors (music)