Stéphane Denève

Stéphane Denève (* November 24, 1971 ) in Tourcoing (France ) is a French conductor. Since 2011 he has been principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Education and Biography

Stéphane Denève studied at the Paris Conservatory.

After working as a rehearsal pianist at the Choir of the Orchestre de Paris under the direction of Arthur Oldham in 1995 he was also the Orchestre de Paris, at the resumption of Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle 's assistant Georg Solti.

Then he assisted Solti 1996 Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Paris Opera.

On the same opera house Denève assisted Georges Prêtre in 1997 at the rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. When Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in 1998 he was assistant to Seiji Ozawa at the rehearsal of Francis Poulenc 's Dialogues des Carmelites Opera and was signed in 1999 with this publication, even his conducting debut at the Santa Fe Opera in the U.S..

From September 2005 to 2012 was Stéphane Denève Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra ( RSNO ). Since 2011 he has been principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the first contract runs until the end of the 2013/2014 season, Denève has extended his contract, according to the SWR 2016.

Besides his work in Stuttgart Stéphane Denève is in demand worldwide as a guest conductor and forwards among others regularly Orchestra in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Philadelphia. He also conducted the BBC Proms and was a guest at La Scala.

Private

Since July 2007 Denève is married to Åsa Masters, their daughter Alma was born in 2008.