Jean-François Verdier
France's Jean-François Verdier maintains dual careers as a conductor and clarinetist, and he is also a composer of music for children. He is the principal conductor of the Victor Hugo Orchestra and has made several recordings with that group.
Verdier was born in Toulouse. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris and won international competitions in multiple disciplines in Colmar, Vienna, Lugano (where he gained attention with the Prix Bruno Walter at the Lugano International Conducting Competition), and Tokyo. Verdier played the clarinet in the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and then, in 1996, became the principal clarinetist of the Paris Opera Orchestra, where he has continued to perform. Concurrently with his career as a clarinetist, Verdier began to rise through the ranks of young conductors. He served as an assistant to Armin Jordan and Kent Nagano, and then he served as conductor-in-residence at the Orchestre National de Lyon in 2008 and again in 2010. In 2010, he became the music director of the Orchestre Victor Hugo in Besançon. He remained in that position as of the mid-2020s. Verdier made his recording debut as a clarinetist with the early music group Les Sacqueboutiers on a 2014 recording of Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.
As a clarinetist, Verdier has collaborated with such top-rank artists as soprano Barbara Bonney, flutist Emmanuel Pahud, and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. He has appeared as a guest conductor at major opera houses, including the Opéra Bastille in Paris (where he scored successes with Massenet's Werther in 2009 and a 2011 ballet based on the film Les enfants du paradis, broadcast live in movie theaters in many countries), the Teatro Real de Madrid, and the Staatsoper in Munich. His orchestral conducting credits include appearances with the likes of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre Symphonique de Berne, and Nagoya Philharmonic. Verdier's recording activity has been mostly as a conductor; with the Victor Hugo Orchestra, he backed soprano Sandrine Piau on her 2021 Alpha release Clair-Obscur. In 2022, he led the orchestra on the jazz crossover album Baptiste Trotignon: Anima, returning in 2024 on Piau's album Reflet. He is also a composer of music for children, having written an opera and several shorter pieces in that genre. Verdier has taught both flute (at the Conservatoire de Paris since 2011, also giving master classes in Japan, China, and Europe) and conducting (at the ESM Bourgogne music school since 2019).
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12 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Reflet
Sandrine Piau, Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-François Verdier
Classique - Paru chez Alpha Classics le 12 janv. 2024
Diapason d'or24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Clair-Obscur
Sandrine Piau, Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-François Verdier
Classique - Paru chez Alpha Classics le 5 mars 2021
5 de Diapason24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Symphonic Blues Project
Awek Blues, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo
Classique - Paru chez Indésens Calliope Records le 17 mars 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Anima
Baptiste Trotignon, Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-François Verdier
Classique - Paru chez Alpha Classics le 14 janv. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Crystal Palace
Paul Meyer, Magali Mosnier, Pierre Génisson, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo
Classique - Paru chez Indésens le 3 juin 2022
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Les quatre saisons
François Leleux, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo
Classique - Paru chez Klarthe Records le 29 avr. 2016
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Une amoureuse flamme
Karine Deshayes, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo
Classique - Paru chez Klarthe Records le 8 nov. 2019
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Le chant de la terre (Version de chambre)
Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Jussi Myllys, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo
Classique - Paru chez Klarthe Records le 31 mars 2017
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Muses
Isabelle Druet, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo
Classique - Paru chez Klarthe Records le 9 sept. 2016
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Weber
Orchestre Victor Hugo, Jean-François Verdier
Classique - Paru chez Klarthe Records le 23 nov. 2018
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
David Lampel: Mandala Symphonie pour orchestre : IV. Virya
Orchestre Victor Hugo Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Jean-François Verdier
Classique - Paru chez Paraty le 1 mars 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT
Classique - Paru chez Arion le 1 janv. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo