ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE ENSEMBLE ORCHESTRAL DE PARIS (depuis 2009/2010)
MUSICAL DIRECTOR OF ACCENTUS
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE INSULA ORCHESTRA
French conductor Laurence Equilbey is known as the founder, artistic director, and principle conductor of the critically acclaimed chamber choir accentus and Insula orchestra. A versatile artist, she is also much in demand in the symphonic, oratorio and opera genres where her conducting is known for its demanding and high artistic standards. Over the last 15 years she has gained critical respect from both the media and her peers.
Her more important opera conducting projects have included Rossini’s La Cenerentolaat Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Pascal Dusapin’s Medeamaterialat Festival Musica (Strasbourg) and Manuel de Falla’s El retablo de Maese Pedro and El amor brujo at Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie. In 2009, she conducted Britten’s Albert Herringat Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie and at the Opéra Comique (Paris). For the 2010-2011 season, she conducted Weber’s DerFreischützfor Toulon Opera and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for Avignon Opera.
A regular guest artist at Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie, Laurence Equilbey conducts many projects with that orchestra, most notably this season Schumann’s ultimateBallades. With accentus, she is privileged to be a partner with Paris’ two most important concert venues : Cité de la musique and Salle Pleyel. In 2010, Laurence Equilbey has conducted Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Periwith the Brussels Philharmonic, accentus and the Chœur de la Radio Flamande at Cité de la musique. Her other orchestral conducting includes working with the orchestras of Lyon, Nice, Picardie, Lille, Pays de la Loire, Bucarest, Varsovie, Café Zimmermann and Concerto Köln (Haydn’s TheCreationat Salle Pleyel in April 2012), among others. In July 2012, she is invited to the Salzburg Festival to conduct Camerata Salzburg and accentus in Mozart’sMass in C Minor.
Since 2009/2010 Laurence Equilbey and accentus have had an ongoing collaboration with the Ensemble orchestral de Paris, where projects of note include a Mendelssohn’s program (“Nuit Fantastique”) at Cité de la musique in march 2012. In addition, Laurence Equilbey is a guest conductor of the Grand Théâtre de Provence (Aix-en-Provence) as well as being artistic and educational director of the Department for Young Singers at the Paris Regional Conservatory.
As artistic director and principal conductor of accentus, she has programmed a large and varied repertoire of vocal music and has an ongoing commitment to contemporary compositions. Their many other recordings are widely acclaimed and they where awarded a “Disque d’Or” in 2008 for the CD “Transcriptions” (more than 130,000 copies sold worldwide).
In 2012, Laurence Equilbey created Insula orchestra, a new orchestra on period instruments dedicated to classic and pre-romantic repertoire.
Laurence Equilbey studied music at Paris, Vienna and London, and conducting with Eric Ericson, Denise Ham, Colin Metters and Jorma Panula.
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