What's On in Burgundy 2010?

JÉrÉmie Rhorer

le cercle de l'harmonie, opera, beaune july 3 2010

©Yannick Coupannec

A young conductor made his debut at the Beaune music festival with Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ in 2006. There were rave reviews. ‘The young Jérémie Rhorer created an event putting the stage on fire with Idomeneo’ said Classica. ‘We must regret that no radio channel could record and broadcast to a larger audience such rare moments and attend the birth of a conductor’ said ConcertClassic.com.

A favourite of the Beaune Music Festival, Rhorer now returns to conduct the opera Thamos, Roi d'Egypte by Mozart on July 3.

A harpsichord player, taught by the former Karajan assistant Emil Tchakarov, Rhorer is devoted to conducting not only early music, but also contemporary works, composing as well in his own right. The orchestra is made up of some 40 young players which he created in 2005, together with violinist Julien Chauvin.

A rising star, Rhorer came to the attention of Marc Minkowski and William Christie and was given the opportunity to conduct Les Musiciens du Louvre and Les Arts Florissants. ‘Their encounters were for me a double musical shock’, he says, ‘with Minkowski because of his energy and his equally brilliant and intuitive sense for the theatrical, and with Christie it was his taste, his knowledge and the scope of his intellect’.