Pascal Rophé (born 16 June 1960) is a French conductor. He was the music director of the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Currently he is the conductor of the Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra ( Simfonijski orkestar Hrvatske radiotelevizije).

Biography

Born in Paris, Rophé studied as early as 1974 at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...

, first studying the

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. He won second prize in a competition of young conductors at the Besançon International Music Festival in 1988. From 1992, Rophé worked with

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and David Robertson within the ensemble intercontemporain. On 19 May 1998, Rophé conducted the premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino's opera ''

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'' at the

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. His 2002 recording of

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's ''Concerto pour orgue'' with organist

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won the Diapason d'Or de l'Année award. Also in 2002, he recorded ''Intrada'' by Éric Tanguy with the

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during the Festival "Présences 99" (2002). He conducted in 2005 the premiere of

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's ''Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone'' with the hr-Sinfonieorchester. From 2006 to 2009, Rophé was musical director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège. In 2011, he premiered ''Akhmatova'', (based on the life of Russian poet

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), Bruno Mantovani's last opera, at the

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. He conducted ''Phosphor'', a concerto for percussion and orchestra by Johannes Schöllhorn, played by its dedicatee Pascal Pons, in October 2006 for the French premiere at the Musica Festival in

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and the Belgian premiere in

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. They recorded in 2007 '' Tout un monde lointain...'' for cello and orchestra by

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, with soloist Marc Coppey. In September 2014, Rophé became music director of the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire (ONPL). In 2016, for the centenary of

, he recorded with the ONPL works by Dutilleux, and also conducted the

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's ''Total Immersion Day: the Magical Soundworld of Henri Dutilleux''. Rophé was re-appointed as orchestra director in 2017 for an additional three years. Rophé is scheduled to stand down as music director of the ONPL at the close of the 2021-2022 season. Rophé's other work in contemporary music has included the 10 March 2017 premiere with the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France the second symphony ''Âme'' ("soul") by Philippe Schoeller, written on a commission by

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References

External links

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