Patrick Gallois

Patrick Gallois ( born April 17, 1956 in Linselles in Lille ) is a French flutist and conductor.

Work

With 17 years Gallois was added to Jean -Pierre Rampal's flute class at the Paris Conservatoire, the first prize he won two years later. There he took lessons with Maxence Larrieu. At age 21, he was given a job as a solo flutist at the Paris National Orchestra, then under the direction of Lorin Maazel. After seven years he gave in 1984 to this job to devote himself to his solo career, which has since taken him to concert halls throughout the world. Gallois has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Karl Böhm, Eugen Jochum, Sergiu Celibidache, Neville Marriner and other conductors. In chamber music recitals with Yuri Bashmet he projects, Natalia Gutman, Peter Schreier, Jörg Demus and the Lindsay Quartet, but especially with his former teacher Rampal and the harpist Lily Laskine. His discography, published by Deutsche Grammophon and Naxos, includes more than 75 titles.

Patrick Gallois was and is a guest at numerous festivals and has been invited by many orchestras, such as the Sinfonia Varsovia, or the London Mozart Players. Tours have taken him to Germany, Israel and Japan. He organizes an annual master classes.

Since the mid -1990s, Gallois operated as a conductor, with a wide-ranging repertoire, which focuses on English, French and Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. He founded and directed the ensemble L'Academie de Paris and was a guest conductor of various orchestras in Asia, Europe and the United States. From 2003 to 2012, he conducted the Symphony Orchestra of the Finnish city of Jyväskylä, the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla, and has given him guest appearances in some European countries and Japan.