Laurent Pillot

Laurent Pillot was Associate Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera alongside Kent Nagano and Placido Domingo, during which time he conducted Ariadne auf Naxos, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and La Bohème. He has since been invited to conduct the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Lyon, the New York City Opera, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier, the Prague Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Limoges, I Pomeriggi Musicali Milan, the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, the Orchestra of Valencia, and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc. Musical Director of the Orchestre Symphonique Rhône-Alpes Auvergne since 1986, he contributes to spread the symphon