Pierre Bleuse

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt into a family of musicians: his father Marc Bleuse is a composer, his mother Anne Fondeville is an opera singer,[1] his brother Emmanuel is a cellist and his sister Jeanne is a pianist.[2] Bleuse began his musical studies of violin at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt in the classes of Jean Lenert and Suzanne Gessner.[2] He continued his studies at the Conservatoire national de région in Toulouse in the classes of Pierre Doukan and Guenadi Hoffmann from 1990. He obtained his violin and chamber music prizes in 1994.[2] He then returned to Paris and entered the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Patrice Fontanarosa.[3] He graduated with a 1st prize in 2002, and studied further at the Berlin University of the Arts.[2]

After his studies, he became a member of the Satie Quartet[3] and the ensembles Court-Circuit and TM+.[4] He was concertmaster and associate conductor of the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra from 2000 to 2010.[3] He also studied baroque violin with Gilles Colliard.[2]

In 2010, Bleuse decided to turn to conducting. He worked with Jorma Panula in Finland, and then entered Laurent Gay's conducting class at the Geneva University of Music in 2011.[3][5] After he graduated in 2013, he became Gay's assistant.[2]

From 2012, Bleuse began regular collaboration with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.[6] He has also worked as an assistant at the Opéra de Lyon from 2017, notably in the production of Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by David Morten.[5] After being spotted by Thierry Fischer in 2014 at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, he was invited for his U.S. debut to conduct the Utah Symphony in Salt Lake City in July 2016.[5]

He co-founded the Lemanic Modern Ensemble for contemporary repertoire, and is its Joint Musical Director.[3] Michael Jarrell entrusted him in January 2017 with conducting the ensemble in his opera Cassandre, starring Fanny Ardant,[7] performed at the Grand Théâtre de Provence.[3][5] His close relationship with Jarrell led him to conduct his anniversary concert in October 2018 at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, with the Lemanic Modern Ensemble and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.[5] Internationally, he conducted the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the China National Symphony Orchestra.[2] With the Russian National Orchestra, he led a concert of French music in February 2019.[6][8] He conducted a production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Lyon in 2019, entitled Dido and Aeneas, Remembered, which was also presented at the Ruhrtriennale in Germany.[9]

Bleuse was a co-founder and is artistic director of the Musika Orchestra Academy, a European school of orchestral studies, bringing together each year students of European conservatories and internationally renowned soloists such as Bertrand Chamayou, Gautier Capuçon, Sol Gabetta, Sonya Yoncheva, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, David Kadouch, Louis Schwizgebel and Fischer.[10]

Bleuse is the designated chief conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra from 2021.[2][3]

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