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Conductor, Composer, Chorus master, Countertenor

Raphaël Pichon

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Raphaël Pichon, born in 1984, began his musical apprenticeship through the violin, piano and singing by training in the various conservatories of Paris (CNSMDP & CRR). As a young professional singer, he performed under the direction of personalities such as Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, or even within Geoffroy Jourdain's Cris de Paris, with whom he tackled contemporary creation. 

 

In 2006, he founded Pygmalion, a choir & orchestra on period instruments, which quickly distinguished itself by the singularity of its projects. All the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, the late versions of Rameau's great lyrical tragedies, the putting into perspective of Mozartian rarities and the exploration of the romantic repertoire are all projects which establish the identity of Pygmalion. Through work centered on the fusion between choir and orchestra, but also through a dramaturgical approach in the performance of the concert, Pygmalion's various achievements were quickly unanimously praised in France and abroad. Alongside his ensemble, Raphaël Pichon performs notably at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Château de Versailles, the BBC Proms, the Bozar Brussels, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, at the French May in Hong Kong or at the Beijing Music Festival. 

 

On the opera stage, Raphaël Pichon directs various productions at the Opéra Comique, the Aix-en-Provence Lyric Festival, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Amsterdam Opera, and the Bordeaux National Opera. He collaborates with directors such as Katie Mitchell, Romeo Castellucci, Simon McBurney, Michel Fau, Pierre Audi, Jeanne Candel, Jochen Sandig, Cyril Teste, Aurélien Bory, Satoshi Miyagi, Laurent Pelly and Jetske Mijnssen. 

 

In 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, Raphaël Pichon created Pulsations in Bordeaux; An eclectic and polymorphous festival, this new festival works with local stakeholders and programs exceptional concerts in unexpected places scattered throughout the city and the metropolis. 

 

Among the most notable projects of recent years, let us cite his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival with the creation of  Trauernacht  to music by Bach, the rediscovery of L. Rossi's Orfeo  (2016), the spatialization of the  Vespro della Beata Vergine  by C. Monteverdi, the cycle of artistic encounters around Bach cantatas at the Philharmonie de Paris, the complete Motets  and  Mass  in B  by Bach, a stage version of the  German Requiem  by J. Brahms in the immense Bordeaux submarine base. Regularly invited to the Aix-en-Provence Festival, he directed  La Flûte Enchantée  for the first time in 2018, then a stage creation of the  Requiem  in 2019 and  Idomeneo  in 2022. A faithful member of the Opéra Comique, he has directed there since 2018 ,  Miranda  around the music of H. Purcell,  Orphée  by CW Gluck,  Hippolyte and Aricie  by JP. Rameau,  Fidelio  by LV Beethoven or even  Lakmé  by L. Delibes.

 

As a guest conductor, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2018 alongside the Mozarteum Orchester, at the Berlin Philharmonie alongside the Deutsches Symphonies-Orchester, and he was invited to conduct the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Scintilla de the Zurich Opera, MusicAeterna by Teodor Currentzis, the Violons du Roy de Québec and the Freiburger Barockorchester and the SWR Symphonieorchester alongside Isabelle Faust. In 2021, he made his debut in Boston with the Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra, which he returned to in 2022 for Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. In 2023, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival in the same work. 

 

His numerous recordings appear on Harmonia Mundi. The latest releases are the imaginary opera Enfers with baritone Stéphane Degout (2018), Libertà! around Mozart's little-known masterpieces, the Motets (2020) and the Matthäus-Passion (2022) by JS. Bach, Mein Traum (Schubert, Schumann, Weber), new collaboration with Stéphane Degout (2022), Vespro della Beata Vergine by Monteverdi (2023). Erato will release the Bach-Handel album in 2021 with Sabine Devieilhe. His entire discography has been unanimously acclaimed in France and abroad.

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