Jean DEROYER
conductor
The French conductor, Jean DEROYER was born in 1979.
At the age of fifteen he enrolled at the Conservatoire national supérieur
de musique in Paris where he studied conducting with Janos FÜRST
and Zsolt NAGY, and harmony, fugue, counterpoint and analysis
with Jean-Claude RAYNAUD, Thierry ESCAICH and
Michaël LEVINAS, winning five first prizes.
He has been assistant conductor of the Ensemble InterContemporain for two seasons
(2004-2005 and 2005-2006). He won the Orchestre National de France
award in the competition initiated by Kurt MASUR. He has performed at
the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and the Théâtre de Caen in Normandy,
and has assisted Pierre BOULEZ at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence and
Lucerne.
During the 2004-2005 season, he was guest conductor with the
Ensemble InterContemporain for the concert in honor of Pierre BOULEZ at the
Cité de la Musique in Paris, and conducted the Ensemble Court-Circuit,
performing a recent work by Yan MARESZ at the Agora Festival.
In 2005-2006 he was asked to conduct the Ensemble Intercontemporain performing
Le Chevalier Imaginaire by Philippe FENELON, and
the most recent composition by Hanspeter KYBURZ
(: + Double Points Plus) at the Pompidou Center in Paris,
IRCAM, and jointly presented by the Festival d?Automne à Paris.
Other Ensemble Intercontemporain concerts include a première performance
of a composition by Arnaud BOUKHITINE (Cité de la Musique),
plus programs of works by Philippe MANOURY, Pierre BOULEZ
and Edgard VARÈSE, and work with soloists such as Alain PLANÈS
and Jean-François HEISSER. In January 2006, Jean conducted the
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, and was immediately re-engaged to
perform with it during the Festival Présence 2007.
In 2006, Jean will be conducting the Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, and the
Orchestre National d?Ile-de-France, playing recent contemporary works,
as well as the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lille.
He will conduct Australia's ELISION Ensemble for the first time in June 2006.
May 2006
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