Ludovic Morlot
Conductor Ludovic Morlot has a wide repertory but has specialized in 20th century music to a degree unusual among conductors of major symphony orchestras. He is also a noted educator.
Morlot was born in Lyon, France, on December 11, 1973. He took violin lessons as a youth and entered the Royal Academy of Music in London as a student of that instrument. During his program there, he switched to conducting. He enrolled for further studies in the field at London's Royal College of Music. In London, Morlot's teachers included Colin Davis, George Hurst, and Colin Metters. He traveled to the U.S. for studies at two prestigious summer conducting programs, those at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine and the Tanglewood Festival in Massachusetts. Back in France, Morlot landed a post as conductor-in-residence at the Orchestre National de Lyon, where he conducted the organization's two youth orchestras. He returned to the U.S. as the assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony and has remained partly based in the U.S. ever since: he became the conductor of the Seattle Symphony in 2011, also serving as the chief conductor of the opera house La Monnaie in Brussels from 2011 to 2015. In 2013, Morlot was named chair of orchestral conducting studies at the University of Washington. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music the following year. In 2014, Morlot made his recording debut on the Cypres label, leading the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of La Monnaie in the Requiem of Alfred Bruneau and a symphonic version of Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande.
During his tenure in Seattle, the Seattle Symphony was named Gramophone magazine's Orchestra of the Year in 2018. In 2019, Morlot stepped down from his Seattle post but has remained associated with the orchestra as conductor emeritus. In 2020, he was appointed artistic director of the National Youth Orchestra of China, and in 2022, he became principal conductor of the Barcelona Symphony and National Orchestra of Catalonia. Morlot has guest conducted a wide variety of the world's top orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, and Dresden Staatskapelle. He made 19 recordings with the Seattle Symphony on the orchestra's label, focusing on 20th century music but also issuing recordings of music by Berlioz and Dvořák. In 2020, he and the orchestra moved to the Cantaloupe Music label, releasing an album of music by John Luther Adams. He returned to the Seattle Symphony in 2023, leading a performance of Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles.
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Ravel: Piano Concertos; Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
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John Luther Adams: Become Ocean
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Klassiek - Released by Cantaloupe Music on 30 sep. 2014
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Dutilleux: Métaboles, L'arbre des songes & Symphony No. 2 "Le double"
Seattle Symphony, Augustin Hadelich, Ludovic Morlot
Klassiek - Released by Seattle Symphony Media on 14 aug. 2015
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Ives: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4, The Unanswered Question & Central Park in the Dark
Klassiek - Released by Seattle Symphony Media on 8 jan. 2016
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John Luther Adams: Become Desert
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John Luther Adams: The Become Trilogy
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Become River
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Marc-André Dalbavie: La source d'un regard & Concertos
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Klassiek - Released by Seattle Symphony Media on 26 jul. 2019
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Dutilleux : Symphony I, Tout un monde lointain, The Shadows
Seattle Symphony, Xavier Phillips, Benjamin Richardson, Ludovic Morlot, Kepler Swanson, Andrew Torgelson
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Charles Ives : Symphony No. 2 - Elliott Carter : Instances - George Gershwin : An American in Paris
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Dutilleux: Sur le même accord, Citations, Mystère de l'instant ...
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Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles...
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Berio: Sinfonia - Boulez: Notations I-IV - Ravel: La valse
Roomful of Teeth, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot
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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "New World" - Varèse: Amériques (Live)
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Ravel : Orchestral Works - Saint-Saëns : Organ Symphony
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Ives: New England Holidays & Orchestral Sets Nos. 1 & 2
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Klassiek - Released by Seattle Symphony Media on 9 jun. 2017
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Stravinsky: Petrushka - Debussy: La boîte à joujoux, L. 128
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Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi & 3 Petites liturgies de la Présence Divine
Jane Archibald, Northwest Boychoir, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Cynthia Millar, Ludovic Morlot, Michael Brown
Religieuze vocale muziek - Released by Seattle Symphony Media on 18 aug. 2017
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Berlioz: Les nuits d'été – Ravel: Shéhérazade – Adams: Le livre de Baudelaire (After Debussy's L. 64)
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Perle: Orchestral Music (1965-1987)
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Klassiek - Released by Bridge Records on 16 feb. 2018
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Stravinsky: The Firebird - Vladimir Nikolaev: The Sinewaveland (Live)
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Klassiek - Released by Seattle Symphony Media on 11 nov. 2016
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