{"id":19885,"date":"2025-09-26T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mirare.fr\/artistes\/jean-francois-verdier\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:59:20","slug":"jean-francois-verdier","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.mirare.fr\/en\/artists\/jean-francois-verdier\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Verdier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit: \u00a9 Iryna Nesterenko<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Conductor, soloist, composer, teacher, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Verdier has been hailed by critics as <em>\u201can extraordinary talent.\u201d<\/em> Super-soloist clarinettist with the Op\u00e9ra national de Paris and professor at the Paris Conservatoire, he is a laureate of international competitions in Tokyo, Vienna, Antwerp, Colmar, and Lugano. He played under Ozawa, Gergiev, Salonen, Boulez, Dudamel, Nelsons, Jordan\u2026 and with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Awarded the Bruno Walter Prize at Lugano in 2001, he became assistant to Philippe Jordan and Kent Nagano, then as resident conductor of the Orchestre national de Lyon (2008\u20132010). Since 2010, he has led the Orchestre Victor Hugo, acclaimed for its award-winning recordings (German Critics\u2019 Prize, <em>Diapason d\u2019or<\/em><em>, <\/em><em>Chocs of Classica<\/em><em>, <\/em><em>Choc Jazz<\/em><em>, <\/em><em>Diamant of Op\u00e9ra Magazine<\/em>\u2026) and his IMAX film with Ren\u00e9e Fleming.<\/p>\n<p>He is sought after by major international stages (Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Vienna, Madrid, Montreal, Warsaw, Luxembourg, Brussels, Mexico City, Moscow\u2026), he has conducted more than one hundred productions at the Op\u00e9ra national de Paris and collaborated with Ren\u00e9e Fleming, Susan Graham, Sandrine Piau, Thomas Hampson, Piotr Becza\u0142a, Isabelle Faust, Sergei Nakariakov, Fran\u00e7ois Leleux, Nemanja Radulovi\u0107, Alexandre Kantorow\u2026 He is jury member at international competitions, he has worked alongside Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Yutaka Sado, and Dennis Russell Davies.<\/p>\n<p>As a composer, he has written musical tales and mini-operas for children, performed by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Munich\u2026 at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Op\u00e9ra Bastille Auditorium, the Capitole de Toulouse, Dessau Oper, and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conductor, soloist, composer, teacher, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Verdier has been hailed by critics as \u201can extraordinary talent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19886,"template":"","class_list":["post-19885","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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