Patrick Davin
Conductor Patrick Davin was an important champion of contemporary music, active in both orchestral music and opera. He worked closely with such composers as Henri Pousseur, Bruno Mantovani, and Philippe Boesmans.
Davin was born in Huy, Belgium, on February 16, 1962. His initial studies were on the violin at the local Académie de Huy. He moved on to the Royal Conservatory of Liège, where he studied violin, piano, harmony, and fugue, and then to the Conservatoire de Toulon in France. Davin's move into conducting came about in part through his having served as an assistant to contemporary composers who were his teachers, including Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, and Luciano Berio.
From 1988 to 1999, Davin served as a professor of musical analysis at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, but he found himself increasingly in demand as a conductor after he founded small contemporary music groups of his own, the Synonymes and Pléonasme ensembles, and became a co-founder of the Orchestre Forlane. He conducted orchestras across Europe, many of them, including Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris and the Klangforum in Berlin, oriented toward contemporary music. Davin also had a major career as an opera conductor, and in this field, he led productions of traditional repertory as well as contemporary music. He served as first guest conductor at the Opéra de Marseille in France and the Opéra royal de Wallonie in Belgium.
Davin recorded for the Marco Polo label beginning in 1994. Following the demise of that label, he was silent on recordings for some years, resurfacing on Fuga Libera in 2010 with a recording of composer Kris Defoort's House of the Sleeping Beauties. He also made several recordings for Dynamic. Davin was named director of the music department of the Royal Conservatory of Liège in 2020, but he died suddenly during a rehearsal on September 9 of that year. His recording of works by 19th century composer Léon Boëllmann with the Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra appeared posthumously in 2021.
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Discography
11 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Dupont : Complete Symphonic Works
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Patrick Davin
Symfonische muziek - Released by Fuga Libera on 8 mrt. 2019
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Œuvres orchestrales
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Samuel Friedmann, Patrick Davin
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 8 mrt. 1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Henri Vieuxtemps : Concertos pour violon (Intégrale)
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Patrick Davin
Klassiek - Released by Fuga Libera on 6 jan. 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Defoort: House of the Sleeping Beauties
Asko Schönberg, Patrick Davin, Omar Ebrahim, Barbara Hannigan
Klassiek - Released by Fuga Libera on 5 nov. 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Boëllmann: Symphonie en fa majeur, Variations symphoniques & Quatre pièces brèves
Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Patrick Davin, Henri Demarquette
Klassiek - Released by Fuga Libera on 2 jul. 2021
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Holmès: Orchestral Works
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Samuel Friedmann, Patrick Davin
Klassiek - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 1 jun. 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Servais: Cello Concerto Nos. 1 & 2, Fantaisie burlesque & La Romanesca
Didier Poskin, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Davin
Klassiek - Released by Fuga Libera on 2 mei 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Philippe Boesmans : Pinocchio
Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie, Patrick Davin
Volledige opera's - Released by Cypres on 9 feb. 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Lalo & Coquard: La Jacquerie
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Choeur de Radio France, Patrick Davin
Volledige opera's - Released by Bru Zane on 2 sep. 2016
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
SCHMITT: Tragedie de Salome (La)
Marie-Paule Fayt, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Patrick Davin
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 3 nov. 1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Œuvres orchestrales
Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Patrick Davin
Klassiek - Released by Marco-Polo on 13 aug. 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo