DENEVE, STEPHANE

Stéphane Denève, now recognized internationally as an exciting young conductor of the highest calibre, made his inaugural appearance as Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra on 29th September 2005 with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. With a career that has taken him to conducting engagements throughout Europe and in North America, in the 2005/06 season he conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Verdi Orchestra Milan, Montreal Symphony, Washington National Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra, and in May 2006 he conducted a Poulenc triple-bill at La Monnaie. In July and August 2006 he conducted the Russian National Orchestra at the Napa Valley and Tuscan Sun Festivals, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at the BBC Proms in London and the Edinburgh International Festival. A graduate of the Paris Conservatoire where he was awarded a unanimous First Prize in 1995, Stéphane Denève began his career as Sir Georg Solti’s assistant for Bluebeard’s Castle with the Orchestre de Paris (1995) and Don Giovanni at the Paris National Opera (1996). He also assisted Georges Prêtre for Turandot at the Paris National Opera (1997) and Seiji Ozawa for Dialogues des Carmélites at the Saito Kinen Festival (1998). During those years he developed relationships with such orchestras as the Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and the Orchestre National d’Ile de France. In December 1997 he made his début in Germany with Die Zauberflöte at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, and was immediately engaged on the conducting staff from the following season where he conducted an enormous range of opera repertoire during a two season contract. Stéphane Denève has a great affinity with the music of his native France, and has conducted works from Grétry, through Debussy and Ravel, to Connesson, as well as Berlioz, Roussel, Fauré and Poulenc. At the same time, he is very much at home in a broad range of repertoire, particularly in the music of the romantic era, but also in the works by Mozart and the early twentieth-century composers.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
PROKOFIEV: Amour des 3 Oranges (L') (DNO) (NTSC)	OA0957D
ROUSSEL: Bacchus et Ariane (Bacchus and Ariadne) / Symphony No. 3	8.570245
ROUSSEL: Symphony No. 2 / Pour une fete de printemps / Suite in F major (Deneve)	8.570529