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What's On in Burgundy 2008? JÉrÉmie Rhorer at the Beaune International Baroque Music FestivaL - July 19 & 26  ©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. And so, in 2008, Rhorer returns to Beaune with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie again. 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. He will be 35 this year, bringing his youthful energy and charisma to the festival performance. The orchestra is made up of young players. In 2005, together with violinist Julien Chauvin, Rhorer created Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, which performs a repertoire from 1720 to 1820 on period instruments. There are some 40 players in all. Rhorer soon 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 interlect’. This season Rhorer will be conducting Gluck’s ‘Orfeo’ at the Beaune International Festival. We are going to hear more of Rhorer for sure, as his experience develops and his expertise blossoms. Festival Programme Tickets are on sale: festival.beaune@wanadoo.fr |
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