The speakers
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Florence Alibert
A graduate of the HEC business school and holder of a DEA (post-graduate diploma) in cultural and communications economics, Florence Alibert began her professional life in 1996 at Ubisoft, the French leader in video games, where she managed the Italian subsidiary and development studios until 2004. She then joined the Orchestre de Paris, out of a passion for music, which she practiced as an amateur. She was Director of Audiences, Communications and Patronage, and later became Director of the Cultural Action Department. In 2012, she was appointed Managing Director of the Palazzetto Bru Zane - center for French Romantic music, in Venice. Since 2017, Florence Alibert has been General Manager of the Cité musicale-Metz. An innovative project in France, the Cité musicale-Metz brings together the Arsenal, the Boîte à musique, the Trinitaires and the Orchestre national de Metz.
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin was appointed Minister of Culture by the President of the Republic, on the proposal of the Prime Minister, on Monday July 6, 2020.
Trained as a doctor of pharmacy, Roselyne Bachelot began her political career in the 1980s. She was Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development (2002-2004), Minister of Health, Youth and Sports (2007-2009), Minister of Health, Youth and Sports (2009-2010) and Minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion (2010-2012).
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Jean-Marc Bador
Jean-Marc Bador is General Delegate of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
After studying literature and history at university, Jean-Marc Bador went on to study music at Sciences-Po Paris. This dual training naturally led him to music management. He helped launch the "Folle journée" festival in Nantes, and was in charge of press communications for the first three editions. In 1997, he joined the Orchestre de Bretagne, becoming its director in 1999. In 2008, he became General Manager of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, then General Manager of the Auditorium/Orchestre national de Lyon. In September 2016, he joined Radio France as Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra (under the direction of Mikko Franck).
In 2012, he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres.
Olivier Bianchi
Olivier Bianchi is Mayor of Clermont-Ferrand and President of Clermont Auvergne Métropole. Passionate about culture, he has worked in this field as a municipal councillor and deputy mayor in the capital of Auvergne. Today, he continues his work in the cultural field, notably as co-chairman of the Culture Commission of France Urbaine.
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Delphine Blanc
Delphine Blanc is a violist. During her studies in Paris and The Hague, she specialized in performance on period instruments. She plays with ensembles such as Concerto Köln and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble in Germany, Insula orchestra and Pygmalion in France.
Delphine Blanc also has a doctorate in the sociology of music and is a research associate at the Georg Simmel Center, EHESS/CNRS. She teaches at IEP SciencesPo in Paris.
Sophie Bollich
Sophie Bollich is a violinist with the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Originally from the Paris suburbs, Sophie Bollich studied at the CNSMD in Paris, where she obtained her violin prize in 2000. During this period, she took part in several sessions with the OFJ and the Gustav Mahler Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado, among others. After a spell at the Capitole de Toulouse, she returned to Paris to work with various orchestras, including the Orchestre de Paris and ONDIF. A musician with the ONPL since 2007, she is also involved in a number of eclectic projects for young people and as part of the Musique à l'hôpital program.
François Bou
François Bou is General Manager of the Orchestre National de Lille. After a literary baccalauréat and law studies, François Bou embarked on advanced studies in singing, musical comedy and lyric art at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
His training and taste for organization naturally led him to administration in the performing arts (opera and symphony orchestra), first with the Lyon Opera Orchestra and then with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Thanks to his many artistic encounters, François Bou quickly moved on to various programming and production management positions at leading national structures such as Opéra du Rhin (Strasbourg), Opéra de Rouen and Opéra-Comique de Paris.
In 1999, he joined the Orchestre National de Lille as deputy artistic director. In 2007, he joined the international artistic agency Van Walsum Management (now ICA) as project manager in the international projects and tours department. In 2009, he was appointed General Manager of OBC, l'Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. He was appointed General Manager of the Orchestre National de Lille in June 2014.
Frédérique Boura
Frédérique Boura is Regional Director of Cultural Affairs for Normandy.
She was also Deputy Regional Director of the Hauts-de-France and Lorraine Regional Cultural Affairs Departments (2012-2015), Head of the Inventory and Heritage Department of the Alsace Regional Department of Culture and Sport (2005-2011), and Regional Curator of the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage at the Alsace Regional Cultural Affairs Department (2001-2005).
Dimitri Boutleux
President of the Opéra National de Bordeaux, Dimitri Boutleux is deputy mayor of Bordeaux in charge of creation and cultural expression. Before entering politics, he worked in various landscape design agencies in San Francisco, then in Rennes, France, with the AUDIAR urban planning agency. He now works for the Bordeaux Aquitaine urban planning agency (A'URBA). After several professional experiences in France and abroad, he decided to settle and invest in Bordeaux.
Anne-Sophie Brandalise
Anne-Sophie Brandalise's career has been marked by a wealth of experience in local authorities and cultural institutions. She was Director of the Mission rayonnement et grands équipements métropolitains at Bordeaux Métropole for two years, Director of Audiences and Development, then Deputy General Manager at the Opéra national de Bordeaux for ten years.
Since June 2018, she has held the position of Director of the Orchestre de Paris. In this capacity, she led in particular the Orchestra's integration into the Philharmonie de Paris.
She holds a DEA in political science, a degree in philosophy and is a graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux.
In 2019, she was awarded the insignia of Officier des Arts et Lettres.
Edith Canat de Chizy
Author since 1983 of over a hundred works (symphonic, concertante, vocal and chamber music), Edith Canat de Chizy was the first woman composer elected to the Institut de France in the musical composition section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2005. Trained as a violinist, she studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, where she won six first prizes including composition, after a brilliant academic career (bachelor's degree in Art History and Philosophy). She taught composition at the CRR de Paris until 2017, after having directed the Conservatoires du 15è and du 7è Art. Her works, commissioned and premiered by prestigious institutions and ensembles (Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Lille, Metz, Radio-France, Ircam, Nederlands Kamerkoor, ...) have earned her numerous awards, including the International Rostrum of Composers prize awarded by Unesco in 1990 for her orchestral piece Yell, the Grand Prix de la Musique Symphonique de la Sacem in 2004, the Grand Prix du Président de la République de l'Académie Charles Cros in 2016 for her body of work, and the Prix Musique SACD in 2021. She is Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, Officier de l'Ordre du Mérite and Commandeur des Arts et Lettres.
Nicolas Cardoze
Nicolas Cardoze has been 2nd bassoon/counterbassoon soloist with the Opéra de Lyon orchestra since 1989, and professor of double bassoon at the CNSMD de Lyon since 2000. He began studying piano at the age of eight, then bassoon at the CNR de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne). He entered the CNSMD de Lyon in 1988, in Amaury Wallez's class. He was awarded 1st prize for bassoon at the CNSMD de Lyon in 1991. He founded and organizes the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition. Nicolas Cardoze is also a staff representative and SNAM-CGT trade union leader.
Manus Carey
Assistant Director (Performance and Programmes) at the Royal Northen College of Music (RNCM) since September 2017, Manus Carey has been passionate about music from an early age. After graduating from Durham University with a first-class degree in Classics, Manus returned to Ireland to study piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He then continued his studies in London with the renowned pedagogue Carola Grindea, while gaining a Master's degree in Musicology at King's College London.
After four years in London, combining work as an accompanist, teacher and music journalist with research into musicians' injuries and the Alexander technique, he decided to combine all this experience by joining the concert department of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, while pursuing a passionate interest in pedagogy through teaching work at Liverpool University.
Manus then spent six years as Head of Creative Programming at Manchester Camerata, before becoming Executive Producer of RSNO from 2013 to 2017.
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Antoine Chéreau
Elected mayor of Montaigu in 2001, he has since chaired the Terres de Montaigu community of communes. A regional councillor since 2004, he was re-elected on Bruno Retailleau's list in 2015, then Christelle Morançais's in 2021.
Since 2017, he has been 1st Vice-President of the Pays de la Loire Region. Since June 2021, he has chaired the Territoires, ruralité, environnement, transition écologique et énergétique, eau, logement, infrastructures numériques, sécurité et santé commission. He has also been President of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (ONPL) since January 2016.
Christelle Creff
Christelle Creff-Walravens has been regional director of cultural affairsfor the Grand Est region since August 2018.
Conservatrice générale des bibliothèques, she has held various positions at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Institut français de Budapest and university and municipal libraries.
Before joining the Grand Est, she was successively deputy DRAC in Alsace, DRAC in Burgundy and more recently cultural advisor at the French Embassy in Luxembourg.
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Saskia de Ville
Originally from Brussels, Saskia de Ville is a musicologist and journalist by training. She has been a producer at France Musique since 2016. There, she piloted the Matinale on weekdays for 3 years, then on Saturday mornings. She is behind the podcast series Les Zinstrus ( Prix Europa 2021 finalist), which brings together actors and musicians, and whose second season is in preparation. Since early September, she has been producing La 4 saisons n'est pas qu'une pizza! a program broadcast daily from 12:30 to 1pm on France Musique, with musician Christophe Chassol on Fridays. She also works for Arte, presenting concerts and operas broadcast live on the channel. She has also worked as a journalist for Musiq3 and RTBF, and as a dramaturge at the Festival d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence.
Jonathan Di Credico
Jonathan Di Credico is a clarinettist. A graduate of the CNSMD in Lyon, he joined the Orchestre de la Musique de l'Air in 2010, before joining the Orchestre National de Metz in 2017 as principal bass clarinet. Since June 2021, he has been General Secretary of the S.A.M.M.LOR-S.N.A.M.-C.G.T. (Syndicat des artistes musiciens de Metz Lorraine) and actively participates in the activities of the S.N.A.M. and its permanent ensembles branch.
François Dietsch
François Dietsch is mayor of Val de Briey, a town of 8,805 inhabitants in the Meurthe et Moselle region. After studying law at the University of Strasbourg, François Dietsch became a lecturer in Public Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law in Metz. In the early 80s, he became Chief of Staff to the Rector of the Corsican Academy, before settling permanently in Briey. He continued his career as a professor at Metz University and became1st deputy mayor of Val de Briey in the 1990s, before being elected mayor of the Commune Nouvelle de Val de Briey in January 2017.
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Christophe Dilys
Christophe Dilys is a producer with FranceMusique (Tendez l'oreille! and Les Trésors de France Musique). He is a graduate of the École Normale Alfred Cortot in orchestral conducting, of the cornet à bouquin at the CRR de Paris and of musicology at the Sorbonne-Paris IV and the CNSMDP. He defended a Master's thesis on Berlioz's orchestral writing. He conducts early music ensembles (Collegium de l'Orchestre des Jeunes d'Ile-de-France, Collegium Cantorbéry) and is musical director of the Orchestre Symphonique Inter Universités de Paris. He performs regularly with the CMBV and Compagnie la Tempête.
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Nicolas Droin
A music executive since 1995, Nicolas Droin is currently General Manager of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, a position he has held since 2013. He began his career in the music world in 1995 as administrative director and then general administrator of the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées / La Chapelle Royale, founded by Flemish conductor Philippe Herreweghe. In 2004, he took over as General Manager of Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble / Marc Minkowski, one of the world's leading Baroque ensembles performing on period instruments. From 2008 to 2013, he was general manager of the renowned accentus chamber choir (founded by Laurence Équilbey) in Paris, before joining the Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
He is an engineer from the Institut Supérieur d'Électronique de Paris (ISEP) and holds a degree in management and marketing from the École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales de Paris (ESSEC).
Philippe Fanjas
After serving as General Administrator of the Orchestre national de Lyon and the Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France, Philippe Fanjas was elected Director of the Association Française des Orchestres in 1999. From the end of 2001, he devoted himself exclusively to these functions.
Vice-president of the European organization Culture Action Europe until autumn 2015, he is also a member of PEARLE* and a member of the Board of the European Network for Opera and Dance Awareness RESEO.
Philippe Fanjas is also president of the Centre de musique de chambre de Paris, directed by cellist Jérôme Pernoo, and of the Compagnie de danse contemporaine Kelemenis, based in Marseille.
He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
Mathieu Ferey
A pianist by training and a graduate of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris in aesthetics and music history, Mathieu Ferey is Director of the CNSMD de Lyon.
An enthusiast for the transmission of music and holder of the certificat d'aptitude aux fonctions de directeur de conservatoire, Mathieu Ferey turned early on to the management of music establishments. He was successively director of the conservatories in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne) and the 17th arrondissement of Paris, before being appointed Inspector of Music for the City of Paris in 2014.
Stephan Gehmacher
He has been General Director of the Philharmonie and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg since August 2013.
After studying law at the Universities of Vienna and Dijon, Stephan Gehmacher spent six years as Concert Manager at the Salzburg Festival, before becoming personal assistant to Sir Simon Rattle in 2001. From 2001 to 2008, he was in charge of artistic programming for the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2008, he was appointed by Mariss Jansons as Director of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischer Rundfunks. He is regularly called upon by various cultural institutions, such as Radio France and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, as a jury member and advisor.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation since 2005, and of the Alban Berg Foundation in Vienna since 2017.
From 2013 to 2020, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the EME Foundation Écouter pour Mieux s'Entendre, before becoming Vice-Chairman in November 2020.
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Christelle Hammache
Christelle Hammache has been a violist with the Orchestre National de Lille since 2017, and teaches in music schools in Lille's neighborhoods. After studying music in Lille and the Paris region, she obtained her Master's degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, in Belgium.
During these years of professionalization and afterwards, she had the opportunity to play in symphony and chamber orchestras, as well as exploring different musical styles through numerous projects (baroque, improvised music, theater, variety).
She is elected to the ONLille CSE (Snam-Cgt list) and secretary of the Cssct.
Reguina Hatzipetrou-Andronikou
Sociologist and researcher affiliated with OFCE, Sciences Po Paris, Reguina Hatzipetrou-Andronikou works on gender issues in the cultural and artistic worlds. Music is at the heart of her interests. After completing a sociology thesis on the feminization of traditional instrument playing in Greece, previously reserved exclusively for men, she took part in a collective research project on gender and adult amateur musical practices in France.
As a member of the PRODIGE project team, funded by the French National Research Agency and in partnership with the Association Française des Orchestres, she is currently studying recruitment procedures in permanent French orchestras. She teaches the sociology of music, education, work and gender in the musicology and sociology departments of Sorbonne University.
Guillaume Hébert
Born in 1980, Guillaume Hébert has worked successively for the Orchestre national de Lyon, the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse and the Opéra national de Paris, where he held the position of musical training administrator.
Musical Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse since January 2020, Guillaume Hébert is in charge of designing, implementing and steering the orchestra's artistic and cultural project. He also manages the orchestra's budgetary and human resources.
Emmanuel Hondré
After successively holding the positions of Music Editor at the Cité de la Musique (1997), Head of Cultural Services at the Musée de la Musique (2002) and Production Director at the Cité de la Musique and Salle Pleyel (2005), he is currently Director of the Concerts and Performances Department at the Philharmonie de Paris, where each year he designs a season of 500 concerts in this five-hall complex: a thematic season open to all musical genres and dedicated to the democratization of music. In July 2021, he has been appointed the next General Director of the Opéra National de Bordeaux Aquitaine. He holds a doctorate in musicology and four first prizes from the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris (music history, aesthetics, pedagogy and musicology).
Loïc Lachenal
General Director of the Opéra de Rouen Normandie since 2017, Loïc Lachenal holds a Master's degree in arts and culture from Lyon, a Master's degree in art history and a piano diploma.
Before becoming head of the Opéra de Rouen Normandie, he was in charge of production and programming at the Opéra de Massy in 2000, then project manager and assistant administrator at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne in 2001. He became production director for Musicatreize, directed by Roland Hayrabedian, from 2001 to 2006, and artistic delegate for Accentus, directed by Laurence Equilbey, from 2006 to 2011. He was also director of the Chambre Professionnelle des Directions d'Opéra. He led its evolution into a broader professional organization, the employers' association Les Forces Musicales.
Priscille Lafitte
Producer on France Musique of the Musique Emoi program, a one-and-a-half-hour Sunday morning interview with a music-loving personality (Daniel Auteuil, Danny Laferrière, Dominique Blanc, Christian de Portzamparc, Hélène Cixous...). Regular producer of the Grands Entretiens on France Musique, including those with Lang Lang, Véronique Gens, Christoph Eschenbach and Agnès Mellon. Priscille Lafitte is also a journalist for Arte, hosting several musical events each year: the New Year's concert at La Fenice in Venice, the Baden Baden Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus Christmas concert, the Duomo concert in Milan.
Louise Lapierre
Bassoonist and co-founder of the Verdi collective, Louise Lapierre followed a classical musical path at Paris conservatories, while training with youth orchestras and collaborating with numerous national orchestras. Her participation in several international competitions has given her the opportunity to promote her instrument, the French bassoon, abroad and to perform as a soloist in France.
Passionate about passing on her passion and concerned about the future of younger generations, she now devotes much of her time to teaching bassoon and raising awareness of climate issues. She also strives to link her profession as an orchestral musician with ecology, notably through the Verdi collective.
Marie Linden
Driven from an early age by her passion for music, Marie Linden followed a generalist education (Sciences Po in Paris) to develop her career in the administration of cultural institutions. Between 1999 and 2010, she had the good fortune to work alongside Pierre Boulez at the Ensemble Intercontemporain, where she held the position of artistic coordinator. She then joined Bruno Mantovani's team at the CNSMDP, first as head of the writing, composition and conducting department, then as head of production - stage learning. In 2017, she was appointed general manager of the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg.
David Lisnard
David Lisnard has been Mayor of Cannes since 2014, re-elected in 2020. He is also President of the Association des Maires de France. A graduate in Political Science, David Lisnard worked as an editor for various newspapers for four years. In 1996, he entered political life and became Cabinet Director and Parliamentary Attaché to the Deputy Mayor of Lons-le-Saunier, Jacques Pelissard, capital of the Jura region. He was then appointed deputy mayor in charge of tourism, economic development, community affairs and religious affairs, before becoming 1st deputy mayor of Cannes in 2008.
Martine Lizola
A senior civil servant, Martine Lizola is an elected member of the Conseil régional du Grand Est, where she chairs the Commission Aménagement et territoires from 2016 to 2021, then the Commission Culture et Mémoire since 2021. She has also been deputy mayor of Châlons-en-Champagne since 2008, in charge of culture between 2016 and 2020, and a community councillor for Châlons Agglomération since 2014.
Pascal Mangin
Pascal Mangin is a Strasbourg city councillor, born in 1968. After studying law, he became Director of the Alsace Office in Brussels in 1994. He was elected deputy mayor of Strasbourg, Fabienne Keller, in 2001 and became Alsace Regional Councillor in 2004. He became Chairman of the Culture Commission in 2012. From 2008 to 2012, he was successively Advisor to the Secretary of State for Town and Country Planning, then to the Secretary of State for Defense and Veterans, and finally to the Minister in charge of local authorities. In 2015, he was re-elected as Regional Councillor and continues to be responsible for the Culture Commission of the Grand Est Region. At the same time, he pursued a career as a senior manager with Enedis in the energy sector.
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Stephen Maddock
Managing Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra since 1999, he is responsible for all the activities of one of the world's leading symphony orchestras, as well as its four choirs, youth orchestra, apprenticeship program and administrative and rehearsal house. He was also assistant planner and then festival director of the BBC Proms.
Bianca Maretti
Born in the United States, Bianca Maretti began her music studies in Brazil, where she graduated in 2017 with a degree in choral and orchestral conducting from Unesp - São Paulo State University. The desire to deepen her musical knowledge and pursue academic research led her to move to France in 2015. She studied musicology at the Sorbonne, where she completed a bachelor's and a master's degree. Her dissertation, Cheffes: gender relations in a Brazilian orchestra, was awarded first class honors. Currently a contract doctoral student at IReMus, she teaches at Sorbonne Universités and is producing a thesis under the supervision of Hyacinthe Ravet entitled Cheffes: la formation à la direction d'orchestre, une féminisation à petits pas, which examines the influence of training spaces and voluntary actions on the feminization of orchestral conducting.
Jean-Philippe Marteau
Solo English horn with the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire for over 20 years, Jean-Philippe Marteau trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Paris, where he obtained two 1st prizes in chamber music and oboe. He is also a SN3M-FO union delegate and an ONPL staff delegate.
Christine Masse-Guépratte
After joint studies at the Conservatoire de Région and at university, Christine Masse-Guépratte won 1st prize in the organ class of Pierre Gazin, titular organist at Saint Louis des Invalides, then worked in Orléans with François Henri Houbart, titular organist at the Madeleine in Paris. She performed in chamber ensembles and recitals, and after completing a master's degree in musicology, she finally opted for teaching in secondary schools, obtaining her agrégation in music in 1983. She has taught in a number of academies in France and in mainland France, working with a wide variety of students. In 2000, she set up a project in Cayenne that brought together an orchestra of conservatory students from the Bordeaux region, and high school and middle school students from French Guiana, where she was in charge of specialized teaching in high schools. Inspectrice d'académie since 2012, she is in charge of music teaching for the whole of Alsace and holds national missions with the Inspection générale; she is a member of the juries for the external and internal agrégation and participates as an expert in the editing of national publications.
Anne Mistler
Currently deputy mayor of Strasbourg, in charge of arts and culture, Anne Mistler began her career in education, before becoming deputy DRAC Alsace, where she oversaw the birth of the Carte Culture. She was then appointed DRAC in Guadeloupe, at the age of 60, before returning to Alsace, where she managed the transformation of DRAC Alsace into DRAC Grand Est.
Frédéric Morando
Frédéric Morando is General Manager of the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn - El Camino. A violinist and teacher by training - Orchestre National du Capitole, Conservatoire de Tarbes - he is passionate about the character of transmission, which he translates simply and generously into music. He was also behind the creation of El Camino Pau, the latest of the Orchestre de Pau's projects, giving nearly 200 children aged 7 to 12 from working-class neighborhoods in Pau access to artistic practice. He was recently made a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.
Bruno Morel
After a degree in social law and a career in the Accueil - Hébergement - Insertion sector since 2000, Bruno Morel was appointed Managing Director of EMMAÜS Solidarité in 2011. At the same time, he is President of a training organization and Chairman of the Fédération des Acteurs de la Solidarité Ile de France.
Catherine Morin-Desailly
Senator for Seine-Maritime since 2004, she chaired the Senate's Culture, Education and Communication Commission from 2014 to 2020, of which she has been a member since her election to the Palais du Luxembourg in 2004. She has also been a regional councillor for Normandy since December 2015, where she chairs the Culture, Tourism and Heritage commission.
Since March 2016, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of Opéra Rouen Normandie, Etablissement Public de Coopération Culturelle (EPCC), which she chaired from April 29, 2016 to October 23, 2017. She also represents the Normandy Region on the board of the Orchestre Régional de Normandie.
She was elected president of the Association Française des Orchestres on June 16, 2020.
Dominique Muller
Dominique Muller's professional career has spanned the fields of music, live performance and cultural action, within a variety of institutions. Starting out as a music education teacher in the French Ministry of Education, he went on to become head of artistic initiatives at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Strasbourg, then head of cultural initiatives at the Conseil départemental de la Côte-d'Or, and finally head of performing arts at the Conseil régional du Languedoc Roussillon. He then joined the Ministry of Culture and the City of Paris as Head of the Music Office. He returned to the DGCA at the Délégation à la musique in 2017 and was appointed Délégué à la musique in 2020.
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Claire Parruitte
Claire Parruitte has been violist with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris since 2015. She began her musical studies on the violin in Reims, where she obtained her Diploma of Musical Studies in 2002. She obtained a master's degree in viola from the CNSMDP in June 2014. In 2012, she joined the CNSMDP's Certificate of Aptitude program in viola, then in 2015 in violin. She took part in the Demos project for two years with a group of children from Bobigny, training them in violin, viola and cello.
She has been teaching viola at the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental d'Issy-les-Moulineaux since 2013.
Claire Parruitte has been a permanent member of the orchestra Les Siècles since 2007, where she plays baroque, classical, romantic and modern violin. To complement her teaching and orchestral activities, in 2011 she founded Ensemble Kyrielle, a variable-geometry chamber music ensemble, with musicians and friends she met at Les Siècles.
Pascal Picq
Pascal Picq is a paleoanthropologist interested in the origins of the human lineage and its current evolution. After a career at Duke University and the Collège de France, his current work focuses on the processes of innovation and management of social groups around the concept ofAnthroprise. In the decade between Un Paléoanthropologue dans l'Entreprise (Eyrolles 2011) and Les Chimpanzés et le Télétravail (Eyrolles 2021), the entrepreneurial world has changed as never before, and on a global scale. How, from prehistoric times to the future, from flint to smartphones, the same adaptive mechanisms ensure that mankind survives only through his companies. In Qui va prendre le Pouvoir? Les grands Singes, les Hommes politiques ou les Robots (Odile Jacob 2017), he anticipated the changes in governance imposed by the socio-economic and anthropological upheavals of the digital age. How will businesses and our societies evolve in the 2020 decade, when no one had measured the impact of smartphones on the economy barely ten years ago, nor the explosion of artificial intelligences(L'Intelligence artificielle et les Chimpanzés du Futur: pour une Anthropologie des Intelligences Odile Jacob 2019), nor the sudden emergence of the covid 19 pandemic? His latest work focuses on the origins and evolution of sexual coercion against women and their economic consequences(Et l'Evolution créa la Femme Odile Jacob 2020) as well as the consequences of the covid 19 pandemic on corporate adaptation, with an anthropological look at new forms of work, including remote working(Une Epoque formidable Editions de l'Aube 2019; S'adapter ou périr. Covid 19: faire Front Editions de l'Aube 2020; Sapiens face à Sapiens Flammarion 2020).
Anne Poursin
Currently Head of the Inspectorate for Artistic Creation, she was Music Delegate at the DGCA of the French Ministry of Culture from 2010 to 2013, and General Director of the Auditorium - Orchestre national de Lyon from 2000 to 2009. She was also Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of Lille from 1998 to 2000, and Administrator of Les Arts Florissants from 1988 to 1997. As part of her expertise in the cultural sector, in January 2021 she was entrusted by the Minister of Culture, in tandem with Jérôme Thiébaux, with a mission on French permanent orchestras, the final report of which was presented on November 8, 2021.
Clémence Quesnel
Clémence Quesnel holds a Master II in in-depth administrative law for local authorities and a diploma in musical studies (CNR de Marseille), and has pursued a dual career in and for the orchestra: she has been a French horn player with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes (2013, 2014) and an additional musician in several French orchestras, a freelancer for the legal section of La Lettre du Musicien for 2 years, and since 2016 has been leading legal workshops with the OFJ. She is also a volunteer member of the administrative team of the Centre de Musique de Chambre de Paris (2016-2017 and 2017-2018 seasons).
Asassistant to the director of the Association Française des Orchestres, she is more specifically in charge of orchestra monitoring, gender equality and ecological and environmental issues.
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David Reiland
Born in Belgium, David Reiland holds degrees in saxophone, conducting and composition from the Brussels Conservatoire, the Paris Conservatoire and the Salzburg Mozartem. He has been Music and Artistic Director of the Orchestre national de Metz since September 2018, and was reappointed in 2020 for a second term until 2024.
Music Director of the Sinfonietta de Lausanne since 2017, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra in 2019, while in August 2020, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra awarded him the title of "Chumanngast". David Reiland was also Music and Artistic Director of the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra from 2010 to 2017.
Bérengère Renou
Bérangère is oboe and English horn soloist with the Orchestre de Cannes.
Born in 1989 in Angers, Bérengère Renou began playing the oboe at the age of 9 at a music school in Maine et Loire, before joining Guy Remaud's class at the Angers conservatory in 2001, followed by the Rueil Malmaison conservatory.
She developed a taste for orchestral music at an early age, and joined the Orchestre Français des Jeunes in 2004 under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus. Called upon to play in various orchestras, in 2011 she won the competition for the position of principal English horn playing the second oboe in the Orchestre de Cannes.
Equally attracted to teaching the very young, she taught early music to the very young at the Institut de culture musicale between 2007 and 2011.
Ferdinand Richard
Ferdinand Richard is the founder and executive manager of the Fanak Fund for artist mobility between Europe, the Arab World and the Middle East. He founded and directed AMI in Marseille (1985-2017), a multi-activity local cultural development platform. A musician and artistic producer (1971-2003), he was one of the founding members of Marseille's "friche La Belle de Mai" (1992) and associated with its management for eight years under the presidency of architect Jean Nouvel. He is also First Coordinator of the Expert Panel of the UNESCO International Fund for Cultural Diversity (2010-2015).
Anaïs Roesch
Anaïs is Project Manager - Culture, Climate and Energy at The Shift Project. Anaïs Roesch is a graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble, the Simon Bolivar Andean University of Ecuador (2012) and the Leipzig School of Fine Arts (2017), and has been working on the intersection of art and ecology for the past ten years. She created the Culture and Energy Transition workshop within The Shift Project think tank in 2019 and is now the pilot for the "visual arts" component. Prior to this, she worked at the Berlin Natural History Museum, in the Embassy and at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a visual arts officer. In 2015, together with the COAL association, she produced ArtCOP21, an art festival entirely dedicated to the climate issue during COP21.
Pascal Rophé
A passionate musician, after winning second prize at the Besancon competition and several years as assistant conductor at the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pascal Rophé has continued to divide his career between Europe and Asia, performing richly varied repertoires. He has been Music Director of the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire since 2013, and Director Designate of the Croatian Radio Television Orchestra (HRT).
Claire Roserot de Melin
A former musician, Claire Roserot de Melin also holds a Master's degree in Music Administration from the Sorbonne, and quickly decided to turn her attention to the management of musical establishments.
After a number of experiences with companies and ensembles (Ensemble Justiniana, Percussions Claviers de Lyon), as well as at the Opéra de Paris and the Opéra National de Lorraine, she joined the Opéra de Rouen Normandie as Director of Artistic Coordination and Musical Training, a position she held for 10 years.
In 2019, she was appointed General Administrator of the Théâtre et Orchestre National du Capitole, where her main missions are to steer the establishment, oversee the institution's national and international influence, and ensure its place in the local and regional community.
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Laurent Roturier
Regional Director of Cultural Affairs for Ile-de-France since September 2019, Ile-de-France is his fourth Drac. His previous positions include Director of DRAC Occitanie (2016-2019) and DRAC Midi-Pyrénées (2013-2015). He has also been President of France's national association of DRACs since October 2016.
Laurent Roturier is Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
Anselm Rose
Since April 1, 2018, Anselm Rose has been sole managing director of Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre gGmbH Berlin (ROC). Born in Wolfsburg, he lives in Dresden and Berlin and is one of the founders and moderators of the managing partners of German Orchestra Day, Europe's largest national gathering of orchestras.
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Aline Sam-Giao
After studying at the IEP in Paris and the University of Sussex in the UK, Aline Sam-Giao turned to the world of music. She worked at the Royaumont Foundation, the baroque ensemble Le Poème Harmonique, the Berlioz Festival and then as general administrator of the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie. Since 2017, she has been General Director of the Auditorium-Orchestre national de Lyon. In 2021, she was elected President of Forces musicales, the employers' union for orchestras and operas, and sits on the professional council of the Centre national de la musique. She is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
Yves Sapir
After studying violin and musicology at Toulouse le Mirail University, Yves Sapir joined theOrchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in 1983, first under Michel Plasson and then Tugan Sokhiev. He continues to work in the orchestra, where in addition to his duties as tuttitiste musician, he is continuously elected artistic staff representative.
Quickly involved in union life, he successfully took part in all the SNAM-CGT's major mobilizations in defense of permanent ensembles, notably those in Avignon, the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre National d'Ile de France in France, and internationally within the framework of the International Federation of Musicians.
After being responsible for the SNAM-CGT's Branche Nationale des Ensembles Permanents, he was appointed Chairman in 2010.
Olivier Schneid
Olivier Schneid has been a journalist since 1983. He has been with La Gazette des communes for fifteen years. He covers the education sector, as well as culture, climate, mountains and participative democracy. He began his career at Radio France, in France and abroad. He has worked for other media, including Les Echos, Euronews and radio stations in Quebec, Belgium and Germany. He is also a journalism trainer.
Nicolas Stroesser
Nicolas Stroesser is Director of the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional (CRR) de l'Eurométropole de Metz. A graduate of the Schola cantorum basiliensis (Basel - Switzerland), he holds the Certificat d'aptitude de professeur de musique ancienne and the Certificat d'aptitude de directeur.
In addition to his professional activities, he regularly works on behalf of the CNFPT and local authorities, providing training and consultancy services on the pedagogical challenges facing artistic education establishments, and on the legal aspects of the cultural sector. He runs the indovea.org blog, a professional watchdog on artistic education.
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Jérôme Thiébaux
Jérôme Thiébaux is an associate professor of music, currently teaching in Besançon. After a few years away from the classroom, he set up the cultural and educational activities of the Orchestre national de Lyon, then became general manager of the Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté alongside artistic director Jean-François Verdier. Mediation plays a major role in his practice, leading numerous listening workshops and conferences. In 2019, he will be co-signing two books for young people with Bernard Friot, and in 2021 will be publishing a Histoire de la musique occidentale with Elisabeth Brisson (éditions Ellipses).
As part of his expertise in the cultural sector, in January 2021 he was entrusted by the Minister of Culture, in tandem with Anne Poursin, with a mission on French permanent orchestras, the final report of which was presented on November 8, 2021.
Patrick Thil
After obtaining a Master's degree in public law (alumnus of the IRA in Metz and the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Reims), a diploma in Art History (Ecole du Louvre) and a diploma in general ecology (European Institute of Ecology), Patrick Thil entered politics and became an elected official in Metz in 1995. He was successively Deputy Mayor of Metz for Culture and Religious Affairs and Vice-Chairman for Cultural Facilities of Metz-Métropole (2001-2008), Metz City Councillor (2008-2020), Regional Councillor for the Grand Est region (2016-2021), and Vice-Chairman of the Culture Commission. Since 2020, Patrick Thil has been Deputy Mayor of Metz (Culture and Religious Affairs) and Councillor in charge of cultural establishments for the Eurométropole-Metz. Since 2021, he has been Moselle Departmental Councillor.
Alongside his political commitment, Patrick Thil is Chairman of the Réunion des Opéras de France, Chairman of the Cité musicale-Metz, Chairman of the Ecole supérieure d'Art de Lorraine, Honorary Chairman of the Cercle lyrique de Metz.
Fabienne Voisin
General Manager of the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France since 2011, she has always been keen to occupy positions that aim to democratize her chosen art.
After dual training in music (CNR Lyon and Boulogne-Billancourt) and management, she became production manager for TransArt Production from 1994 to 2003. In 2003, she joined the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France as Concert Distribution and Production Manager. From 2007 to 2010, Fabienne Voisin chose to work abroad, rehabilitating a cultural center in a working-class neighborhood in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Returning to France in 2010, she rejoins the Francilian phalanx as General Delegate. A year later, she will become General Manager.
Xavier Zunigo
Xavier Zunigo holds a doctorate in sociology and is founder of the ARISTAT research agency. He teaches at Paris-Dauphine University, where he is a research associate at the IRISSO laboratory.