Franck OLLU
conductor

Franck Ollu was born in La Rochelle, France. He studied music in Paris (french horn with George BARBOTEU and André CAZALET, composition with Jean-François ZIEGEL), and was also a member of Musique Vivante in Paris, from 1987--1990. In 1990 he became a member of Ensemble Modern and moved to Frankfurt, became their principal horn player, and now appears with them on a regular basis as a conductor.

Franck has been assistant conductor to Jonathan NOTT with the Bamberg Symphoniker and the Luzern Symphonie Orchestra. From September 2000, he has been the assistant conductor at the Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris. He has also conducted various ensembles for contemporary music including Ensemble Modern, the ensemble 2e2M (Paris), the Asko Ensemble (Amsterdam), and the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris. He will be the Artistic Director of KammerensembleN in Stockholm from the 2004/05 season onwards.

Also in the 2004/05 season, Franck will appear with Ensemble Modern for the first performances of an opera by Olga NEUWIRTH. The opera will be performed in Graz (premiere), Vienna, Cologne, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Alongside this new production, he will appear with Ensemble Modern for other projects, and will lead concerts with the Bayerischer Rundfunk, London Sinfonietta, KammerensembleN, the Swedish Radio Choir, the Remix ensemble and ELISION Ensemble

January 2005

Photo by Gil MEYDAN