GALLOIS, PATRICK

Patrick Gallois belongs to the generation of French musicians leading highly successful international careers as both soloist and conductor. From the age of seventeen he studied the flute with Jean-Pierre Rampal at the Paris Conservatoire and at the age of 21 was appointed principal flute in the Orchestre National de France, under Lorin Maazel, playing under many famous conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Karl Böhm, Eugen Jochum, and Sergiu Celibidache. He held this post until 1984, when he decided to focus on his solo career, which has subsequently taken him throughout the world. He regularly performs and records with leading conductors and collaborates in chamber music with musicians such as Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman, Peter Schreier, Jörg Demus, the Lindsay Quartet and formerly with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Lily Laskine. He has been invited to appear as a soloist with major orchestras in Europe and in Asia, and in leading international festivals, with tours to Germany, Japan and Israel, and annual master-classes at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada.

For twelve years after establishing his own orchestra in Paris, the Académie de Paris, Patrick Gallois has developed a conducting career which has taken him to Japan, Scandinavia, Italy, Portugal, the United States and Bulgaria, in addition to appearances as a conductor in France. In 2003 he was appointed Musical Director of the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä and tours regularly with the orchestra. Both as a conductor and as a flautist he has a wide repertoire, with a strong taste for contemporary music, and many new works have been dedicated to him. His recordings include an award-winning series for DGG. For Naxos he has recorded the complete flute concertos of C.P.E. Bach (8.555715-16), among other works.

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Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
DOPPLER, F. / DOPPLER, K.: Music for Flutes and Orchestra	8.570378
GOUNOD: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2	8.557463
HAYDN, J.: Symphonies, Vol. 33 (Nos. 25, 42, 65)	8.570761
HAYDN: Symphonies, Vol. 29 (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)	8.557571
HAYDN: Symphonies, Vol. 32 (Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12)	8.557771
MOZART: Flute Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299	6.110055
REINECKE: Flute Concerto / Harp Concerto / Ballade	8.557404
SIBELIUS (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552135-36
SIBELIUS: Pelleas and Melisande / DESBRIERE: Sinfonia	8.557985