The French musician Louis Langrée has been Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York since December 2002 and his first five festivals have been marked with extensive critical acclaim. During the 2007/8 season he will make his debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Rome Santa Cecilia Orchestra and Mozarteum Orchestra at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, in addition to return visits to the Houston and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras and Concerto Köln. During this season he will also conduct for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival with Mozart’s Zaide.

The 2006/7 season included performances with the Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Dallas, Baltimore, Hallé and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestras. In Vienna in 2006, as part of the city’s Mozart anniversary celebrations, he conducted Mozart’s Zaide with the Camerata Salzburg directed by Peter Sellars and a series of performances with the Mark Morris Dance Company. Future seasons include performances with the Camerata Salzburg (Vienna), the London Philharmonic Orchestra (London) and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (Amsterdam) as well as his debut at La Scala in Milan.

Louis Langrée has worked with many other orchestras both in Europe and further afield, including the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Detroit, Tokyo Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. He also regularly conducts period instrument orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Concerto Köln, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and Le Concert d’Astrée. Festival appearances have included Spoleto, les Chorégies d’Orange, Wiener Festwochen and the BBC Proms. He has held positions as Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie (1993-98), Opéra National de Lyon (1998-2000) Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège (2001-06).

Louis Langrée was Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera for five years and has worked regularly at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has also conducted at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dresden Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre in Geneva, Opéra-Bastille and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. For his performance in Fidelio at Glyndebourne Opera in 2001 he was the joint recipient, with Sir Simon Rattle, of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s award for Best Musical Achievement for Opera.

Louis Langrée has an extensive discography including recordings for Virgin Classics, Universal and Naïve. Many of these have won awards including Victoire de la Musique, Diapason d’Or and Gramophone. His most recent release is Mozart’s C minor Mass with Le Concert d’Astrée on Virgin Classics.