On September 19, Thomas Hengelbrock opened the 2023-2024 season of the Paris Chamber Orchestra as guest conductor.
It is as musical director that he will open his 2024-2025 season, on September 7 at the… Panthéon!
The conductor will conduct, as part of Paris 2024 and on the eve of the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games, the
Requiem
of Gabriel Fauré, the hundred years of whose death we commemorate this year.
Quite a symbol for someone who chose to settle in Paris with his wife and child two and a half years ago.
“After living in Germany for many years, I felt the need to immerse myself in French culture,”
he explains with pride, seated in a café a stone’s throw from the Luxembourg Gardens – not far from the neighborhood where he put down his bags.
I have always been fascinated by your relationship to history.
And I am convinced that our two countries have a very important link in the idea of European culture.”
France, this enthusiast…
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