Fayçal Karoui (born 1971), is a conductor of Tunisian descent.
He won a prize at the 1991 Besançon International Young Conductors Competition and first prize in conducting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in 1997. The Aïda scholarship that year gave him the chance to work under Michel Plasson and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and the following June he was appointed Plasson’s assistant.
The music director of the Orchestra Philharmonique de Pau from 1997, he conducted the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestra de l’Opéra National de Paris, the Orchestra National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestra National de Lille and the Orchestra National de Monte-Carlo, as well as the Aix-en-Provence Chamber Orchestra, the Young French Artists’ Orchestra, the Académie de Saint-Louis en l’Ile Orchestra of Paris, the Orchestre de Picardie and the Orchestre National de Montpellier. He was the New York City Ballet's music director from December 2006 to spring 2012. the fifth since its inception in 1948. Since January 2011, he is the music director of the Orchestre Lamoureux.
Discography
l'Orchestre de Pau Pays du Béarn with Etsuko Hirose (piano) Robert Schumann: Concerto pour piano et orchestre Franz Liszt: Concerto pour piano et orchestre n°2 Mirare (ref.MIR135) l'Orchestre de Pau Pays du Béarn with Isabelle Georges (voice) and l'ensemble Sirba Octet Yiddish Rhapsody Ambroisie (ref.AM191), 2009 l'Orchestre de Pau Pays du Béarn with Smaïn Sergueï Prokofiev: Pierre et le Loup Intrada (ref.INTRA011), 2004 l'Orchestre des Jeunes d'Ile-de-France with Maciej Pikulski (piano) Sergei Rachmaninoff: Concerto for piano and orchestre n°2 with piano solo pieces of Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin Zig Zag Territoires
References
External links
Fayçal Karoui Columbia Artists Management Inc. biography on Columbia Artists Management's website MS Word document Fayçal Karoui Solea Management website Fayçal Karoui prend la direction de l'orchestre parisien Lamoureux SudOuest, February 1, 2011 Fayçal Karoui un grand chef d’orchestre de Pau vient de nous quitter à 50 ans Citoyens des deux rives, April 11, 2010 10:52 Fayçal Karoui son coeur bat toujours pour Pau La Républiquedes Pyrénées, July 1, 2011 biography on Concerts website television interview biography on l'Orchestre de pau website
1967 births
Musicians from Paris
Ballet conductors
New York City Ballet
Living people
French people of Tunisian descent
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
21st-century conductors (music)