Jean-Claude Casadesus

Jean -Claude Casadesus ( born December 7, 1935 in Paris ) is a French conductor.

The son of actress Gisèle Casadesus, and grandnephew of the pianist Robert Casadesus studied until 1958 at the Conservatoire de Paris drums. He composed film and theater music and learned the conducting with Pierre Dervaux and Pierre Boulez. In 1969 he became conductor of the Opéra National de Paris and the Opéra -Comique. In 1971 he founded with Pierre Dervaux the Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de la Loire, its director until 1976.

He then founded the Orchestre National de Lille, with whom he has since worked together and each year more than one hundred concerts are worldwide. In addition, he acts as guest conductor of the great symphony orchestras and the major opera houses in Europe.

With the Orchestre National de Lille, he played more than twenty recordings one (including Gustav Mahler's Rückert-Lieder and Kindertotenlieder and the first, second, fourth and fifth symphony, Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy and Clovis et Clotilde by Georges Bizet ).

He wrote the autobiography Le plus court chemin d'un cœur à un autre. His children are also creative, as is his daughter Caroline Casadesus singer, one of his sons Olivier Casadesus actor and his other, Sebastian Copeland, photographer and documentary filmmaker. His nephew is Orlando Bloom.