Jean-Paul Fouchécourt

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt is a Ténor (High-against) and Saxophoniste French, born the August 30th 1958 with Blanzy

First of all noticed for his many interpretations of the repertory baroque and the roles of “High-against with the Frenchwoman”, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt gradually extended his repertory. One finds it today on the largest scenes, putting with the same brilliance “his mischievousness, his demolition on scene, the clearness of his diction, the sensitivity and elegance of his song” with the service of Claudio Monteverdi, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hector Berlioz, Gabriel Fauré, but also Jacques Offenbach, Benjamin Britten, Emmanuel Chabrier, Manuel Rosenthal or Alban Berg, Giuseppe Verdi, Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski…

General-purpose musician with the complete formation (piano, direction of orchestra and saxophone to the more high level), it begins a career of saxophonist traditional, and belonged to the quartet Quatuor Adolphe Sax. Its meeting with Cathy Berberian will be finally decisive of its orientation towards the song. It will improve its knowledge of the styles near William Christie then of Marc Minkowski which, the first, will enable him to reveal its talents. Other large interpreters of the Baroque music like R.Alessandrini, Philippe Herreweghe, Rene Jacobs, S. Kuijken, NR. McGeggan, Herve Niquet, CH. Rousset, T. Pinnock, G. Garrido…

With the opera, its most outstanding roles are Platée, Arnalta (Crowning of Poppée de Monteverdi), the Husband (Udders of Tirésias of Poulenc), the four servants (Tales of Hoffmann of Offenbach), Basilio (the Marriages of Figaro of Mozart), the Child and the Magic spells of Ravel, Ouf 1st (the star of Chabrier) Bardolfo (Falstaff de Verdi) inter alia which it sings on the scenes of the Opera of Paris, of Lyon, of the Rhine, of Geneva, of Amsterdam, of Châtelet (Paris), of London (Covent Garden), of Zurich, Brooklyn Academy off Music, Metropolitan Operated and City Opera (New York), Cincinnati, Tokyo, Vlaamse Opera and of the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Orange, Proms (London), Saito Kinen (Japan)… He collaborates with the full orchestras like the Philharmonique of Berlin, of Boston, of the BBC, London, Birmingham, National orchestra of France, and the chiefs as famous as Frans Brüggen, Myung-Whun Chung, J. Conlon, Sir A. Davis, Charles Dutoit, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, J. Levine, J. Lopez-Cobos, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, A. Pappano, Michel Plasson, Sir Simon Rattle… and always, Mr. Minkowski.

Professor with CNSM of Paris of 1994 to 1997, it teaches today in many and prestigious Master class. Large defender of the French melody throughout the world, it privileges, it to serve, the meetings with pianists like D. Baldwin, J. Cohen, G. Johnson, Christophe Ivaldi, NR. Lee, Jean-Marc Luisada, S. Mannoff, Roger Muraro, has Planès and Alexandre Tharaud.

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt realized nearly 80 recordings largely rewarded by the press and reflections for his broad repertory. Its last recording is devoted to a recital of operatic arias of Jean-Philippe Rameau with Opera Lafayette directed by Ryan Brown of Washington with broad extracts of Foundation and whose exit is envisaged in September 2007.

Atys and Phaéton of Lully, Didon and Énée and The Fairy Queen of Purcell, Foundation , Pygmalion , the gallant Indies , Hippolyte and Aricie of Branch, the incoronazione di Poppea and It ritorno of Ulisse in patria of Monteverdi, Loves of Ragonde of Jean-Joseph Mouret and Festivals of Paphos of Mondonville, etc

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