François Leleux
Oboist François Leleux is among Europe's preeminent wind soloists and chamber players. Leleux is also a conductor, an important educator, and an orchestral player who has served as artist-in-residence with various ensembles.
Leleux was born in Croix, in far northern France, on July 30, 1971. He began taking oboe lessons at age seven in the Conservatory in nearby Roubaix and won entrance to the Paris Conservatory (the CNSM in Paris) at 14. Studying with Pierre Pierlot and Maurice Bourgue, he earned first prizes in both oboe and chamber music. Prizes at major competitions, most of them outside France, helped launch a successful career, as did stints at the National Orchestra of France (as a replacement musician) and the Youth Orchestra of the European Community, the latter conducted by Claudio Abbado. Leleux won an Orchestre National de l'Opéra Bastille de Paris recruitment competition when he was 18 and joined that ensemble four years later. Then he became a member of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, playing under such conducting heavyweights as Lorin Maazel and Mariss Jansons. Leleux joined the European Chamber Orchestra in 2003 and has also played with the Paris-Bastille Ensemble and the ensemble Les Vents Français. Leleux is a professor at Germany's Musikhochschule München.
After making his recording debut with an album of music by Poulenc and Britten on the Harmonia Mundi label in 1995, Leleux was signed to Sony Classical and released Alles fühlt der Liebe Freuden, an album of Mozart wind works, in 2008. He released several more albums as an oboist on Sony. In the late 2010s, Leleux became active as a conductor, appearing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, among other groups. He has regularly conducted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and led the group on an Asian tour. Leleux has served as artist-in-residence with the Aalborg Symfoniorkester, performing as both conductor and soloist. He made his recorded debut as a conductor in 2020, with an album of music by Gounod and Bizet with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, on the Linn label.
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Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1 & Symphony No. 1 - Gounod: Petite Symphonie
François Leleux, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Linn Records am 13.03.2020
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 KV 491 & 17 KV 453
Eric Le Sage, Gävle Symfoniorkester, François Leleux
Klassik - Erschienen bei Alpha Classics am 01.07.2022
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Jarrell: …prisme / incidences...
Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, François Leleux, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Klassik - Erschienen bei AEON am 13.09.2007
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Telemann: Douze Fantaisies pour Hautbois
Klassik - Erschienen bei Syrius am 01.01.1997
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Prince Esterházy Concertos (Haydn & Hummel)
BläserKonzerte - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 17.04.2015
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Les quatre saisons
François Leleux, Jean-François Verdier, Orchestre Victor Hugo
Klassik - Erschienen bei Klarthe Records am 29.04.2016
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Hört! Die Engelsboten singen
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, François Leleux, Christian Pilz, Florian Helgath, Unknown Artist
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei BR-Klassik am 05.11.2013
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Richard Strauss : Concerto pour hautbois
Instrumentalmusik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 20.08.2010
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Mozart: Works for Oboe and Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 18.07.2008
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Bienvenue en France
François Leleux, Emmanuel Strosser
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 21.08.2020
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Le Charme du hautbois
François Leleux, Münchener Kammerorchester
Instrumentalmusik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 04.10.2013
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Der Charme der Oboe
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 04.10.2013
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Mozart: Werke für Oboe und Orchester
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 18.07.2008
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Britten & Poulenc: Works for Oboe
Klassik - Erschienen bei harmonia mundi am 01.01.1996
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Mozart/Britten/Dohnànyi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 04.04.2008
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Zelenka: Trio Sonatas 1, 4 & 6
Stefan Schilli, François Leleux, Marco Postinghel, Philippe Malfeyt, Béatrice Martin, Heinrich Braun
Klassik - Erschienen bei Aulos MusiKado am 15.07.2006
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Bach: Bleibet meine Freude
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 23.03.2007
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Witold Lutoslawski
Sinfonietta Cracovia, Robert Kabara, Michel Lethiec, François Salque, Isabelle Moretti, François Leleux
Klassik - Erschienen bei Arion am 01.11.2003
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Dvořák: Serenade in D Minor, B. 77; String Quartet No. 13 in G Major, B. 192 (Live Recordings from Spannungen Festival 2008)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin am 03.08.2009
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Lettres Mêlées
Vincent Coq, Raphaël Pidoux, Jean-Marc Phillips Varjabedian, Paul Meyer, Emmanuel Pahud, François Leleux
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 01.01.2009
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Brigitte Klassik zum Genießen: Francois Leleux
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Music Classical Local am 22.09.2017
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