Laurent Petitgirard

Laurent Petitgirard is a Compositeur and Leader French, born with Paris in 1950.

Biography

He studies the piano with Serge Petitgirard and the composition with Alain Kremski.

He composes more than one score of works of symphonic music and nearly one hundred fifty film musics or for television. He is in particular the author of the music of several films of Francis Girod and of the series of the Maigret .

He is also a type-setter of lyric works with inter alia, in 1998, his first opera Joseph Merrick known as Elephant Man on a booklet of Eric Nonn created in 2002 with the Opéra of State of Prague in a setting in scene of Daniel Mesguich.

He founds in 1989 the French Symphony orchestra of Paris which he will direct until 1996.

He is currently a leader that the great musical formations of the world invite: Orchestra of the national Opera of Paris, Philharmonic orchestra of Monte Carlo, National orchestra of France, National orchestra of Lyon, Orchestra of the Opera of Nice, Philharmonic orchestra of Strasbourg, Symphony orchestra of Bamberg, Philharmonic orchestra of Berlin, Orchestra of Tonhalle of Zurich, orchestra of Fenice, Orchestra of the French-speaking Switzerland, National orchestra of Spain…

In 2004, he is elected musical director of the Orchestre Column in Paris. “Only French chief musical director of a Parisian orchestra”, it is re-elected for three more years in October 2007.

From 2003 to 2005, he is president of SACEM. He is again elected with the presidency of the Board of directors, for 2007 - 2008.

He is prize winner of the Grand Prix High-school pupil of the Type-setters 2000 and the Prix Music 2001 of SACD.

Laurent Petitgirard is member of the Institut since 2000, elected with the Académie of the fine arts to the armchair of Marcel Landowski.

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