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Download biography as pdf Download biography as word docAged 15, Jean Deroyer began his studies at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where he was awarded no less than five 1st prizes for conducting. Since graduating, Jean Deroyer has gone on to establish himself as one of the leading interpreters of contemporary repertoire in France, with Opera Brittania heralding him as “‘The next BIG thing’ in the French conducting fraternité” following his success at the Opera Comique in Paris.
Future highlights will include the production of Eric Tanguy’s new opera (which will be staged by Michel Blanc) for Bouffes du Nord, a new production of Peter Weiss’ Der Turm with the Luxembourg Opera and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, projects with Orchestre National de Lorraine (at the Acanthes Festival), Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Klangforum Wein at the Vienna Konzerthaus and on tour to Cologne and Luxembourg, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, I Pomeraggi Musicali, l’Ensemble Basse Normandie and Ensemble Court-Circuit, as well as a South American tour of Michael Jarrell’s monodrama Cassandre with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Fanny Ardant narrating. He will also undertake performances and recordings with l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.
He has recorded Thomas Roussel's Cellar Door with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for EMI and also works by Ferneyhough with the Elision Ensemble on the Kaorps label.
Jean Deroyer is the Music Director of Ensemble Court-Circuit and the Principal Guest Conductor of l’Ensemble Basse Normandie.
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Aged 15, Jean Deroyer began his studies at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where he was awarded no less than five 1st prizes for conducting. Since graduating, Jean Deroyer has gone on to establish himself as one of the leading interpreters of contemporary repertoire in France, with Opera Brittania heralding him as “‘The next BIG thing’ in the French conducting fraternité” following his success at the Opera Comique in Paris.
In recent seasons, Jean Deroyer has conducted many leading orchestras in France and abroad, in both contemporary music and standard repertoire, such as NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien, SWR Orchester Baden-Baden, RSO Orchester Stuttgart, Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Orchestre National de Lyon, in halls such as the Wien Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, salle Pleyel, Luzern Hall, Essen Philharmonie, Tokyo Opera City and Lincoln Center in New-York.
Over the last few seasons he has built a strong relationship with Ensemble Intercontemporain and continues to work with them regularly each season. Other contemporary ensembles with whom he works include Ensemble Remix, Ensemble MusikFabrik, Ensemble Itinéraire and Klangforum Wien.
He conducted Stockhausen’s Gruppen for three orchestras alongside Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös at the 2007 Lucerne Festival and in 2010 was invited by Boulez himself to conduct a complete programme of his music. In 2010, he travelled to Beirut for a concert with the Lebanon Symphony Orchestra as part of a co-production between La Mission Culturelle Française au Liban and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique à Beyrouth, and opened the Sacrum Profanum Festival with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Krakow. In the same year he also conducted the premieres of two operas, L'Amour Coupable by Thierry Pecou at the Opera de Rouen and Les Boulingrin by Georges Aperghis, staged by Jérôme Deschamps at the Opera Comique in Paris, with Klangforum Wien, to great acclaim; he then returned to Opera de Rouen for a production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande about which Christophe Rizoud wrote, “Jean Deroyer conducted with impressive virtuosity”.
Other highlights of the 10/11 season included engagements with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Orchestre Chambre de Genève, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre d’Avignon, as well as some larger-scale projects: a production of Paul Dukas's Ariane et Barbe Bleue with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France at the Salle Pleyel, projects with Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Ensemble de Basse-Normandie, and the premiere of Frédéric Verrières’ The Second Woman at the Bouffes du Nord in Paris with Ensemble Court-Circuit. The enormous success of this opera has led to extensive tour plans over the next two seasons.
This and next season's highlights include the production of Eric Tanguy’s new opera (which will be staged by Michel Blanc) for Bouffes du Nord, a new production of Peter Weiss’ Der Turm with the Luxembourg Opera and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, projects with Orchestre National de Lorraine (at the Acanthes Festival), Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Klangforum Wein at the Vienna Konzerthaus and on tour to Cologne and Luxembourg, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, I Pomeraggi Musicali, l’Ensemble Basse Normandie and Ensemble Court-Circuit, as well as a South American tour of Michael Jarrell’s monodrama Cassandre with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Fanny Ardant narrating. He will also undertake performances and recordings with l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.
He has recorded Thomas Roussel's Cellar Door with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for EMI and also works by Ferneyhough with the Elision Ensemble on the Kairos label. In 2011 he recorded Exercices de Style by Matteo Franceschini with the Orchestre National d'Île de France.
Jean Deroyer is the Music Director of Ensemble Court-Circuit and the Principal Guest Conductor of l’Ensemble Basse Normandie.
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"... Klangforum, conducted by Jean Deroyer, gave obsessively good performances of six major works. From the whispered, stuttering fragments of Georges Aperghis’s 2008 Seesaw to the amplified howls of Bernhard Lang’s 1999 Differenz/Wiederholung 2, this was a programme rich in content and variety, well-constructed, superbly realised and thoroughly diverting."
Shirley Apthorp, Financial Times
"And so to Jean Deroyer, still only 33 years old, he linked extreme precision with a rare ability to bring the musicians right in to the heat of moment and present each work’s poetic uniqueness to the audience. High artistry! "
Frank Langlois, ResMusica
"Jean Deroyer has equally assimilated l’Oiseau Innumérable with the complicity from the soloist tackling the piano concerto, which is open to volatile frolics, light crackling and rustling of the keyboard, to the Ravelesque fluidities and gruff shaking of the author of The Rite..(…) Jean Deroyer's interpretation is vigorous and rigorous, but without the vehemence or overvoltage that can often be found in some versions. Following a kinetic progression, he keeps his tempos and develops a relentless motivity that moves in an upward direction and highlights the orchestra's unalterable shading. The ONL has, with intelligence and integrity, restored this piece of classic contemporary music of the immediate post-war era which is not played very often perhaps, even, for the first time in Metz. "
Georges Masson, Le Republicain-Lorrain
"The power of the musicians of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra was extraordinary. Jean Deroyer conducted very clearly with incredible precision, creating a unique differentiation of sound."
Guy Wagner, Tageblatt
"The musical execution, both on stage and in the orchestra pit, deserve the same amount of recognition… in the pit the ensemble of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra was sitting under the prudent and committed baton of the young Parisian, Jean Deroyer, who led his fellow musicians, as well as the vocalists on the stage, with persuasiveness..."
Von Loll Weber, Luxemburger Wort
"As part of the festival Septembre musical de l'Orne, and in partnership with the "CDC du Pays du Camembert", an outstanding concert was given by the Orchestre de Basse Normandie on Friday 16th September in the church of Notre-Dame de Vimoutiers[...] Under the direction of Jean Deroyer, soprano Zoé Noclaidou and the orchestra demonstrated the measure of their talent in front of an audience of 120 fans of Piotr Moss’ music. Moss composed the piece in memory of the Polish soldiers who fought and died on Normandy soil during the Second World War[...] The emotive power of this piece has been associated with Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.4, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year."
ouestfrance.fr
"Jean Deroyer … seized the introduction of Ariane et Barbe-Bleue with bursting strength which continued unabated throughout the three acts, progressing from the shadows to the light. [His] direction was clear and clean as he glided through the transitions, never getting lost in the emotional turmoil at the expense of structure and expression. The progress of the plot was well executed and in control at all times…"
Michel Le Naour, ConcertClassic.com
"There is a crash in the stalls. In this splendid intimate theatre which is the Opéra Comique we all fear for a moment there has been an accident. But it is just ‘the next BIG thing’ in the French conducting fraternité, Jean Deroyer making his entrance…"
Miranda Jackson, Opera Britannia
"The excellent Klangforum Wien was directed by Jean Deroyer, one of our youngest but most expert conductors of contemporary music…"
A. Pecquer, La Terrasse
