“The conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi, showing sensitivity to the intricacies and sparkle of Rossini’s score, led the excellent Ensemble Matheus in a beguiling performance.”
– New York Times
“Voluble, expressive, even magical, Jean-Christophe Spinosi. . . has proven once again that he is a Vivaldian of the highest order!”
– Le Monde
A modern, baroque, and profoundly humanistic musician, Jean Christophe Spinosi has pursued a brilliant international career.
At the head of his Ensemble Matheus, he has performed regularly at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Theater an der Wien, Salzburg Festival, Liceu in Barcelona, Staatsoper in Berlin… as well as created numerous atypical projects mixing baroque repertoire with contemporary music and street artists.
The symphonic and opera worlds rapidly opened their doors to him, recognizing his audacious interpretations. He is a regular guest of the greatest international orchestras such Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Radio Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Spanish National Orchestra, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Moscow National Chamber Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic of Tokyo, Osaka Philharmonic … with whom he performs in prestigious halls, from the Berlin Philharmonic to Carnegie Hall in New York, the Palais Garnier in Paris, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo to the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow.
Jean Christophe Spinosi’s artistic collaborators include soloists such as Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Janine Jansen, Maxim Vengerov, Maria João Pires, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Natalie Dessay, and Jakub Józef Orliński.
Spinosi has conducted nearly all of Rossini’s operas, including new productions of Le Comte Ory at the Theater an der Wien. He has a keen sense for programming works from the French repertoire, including the operas of Bizet and the symphonic works of Ravel and Debussy.
Jean-Christophe Spinosi is represented worldwide by Tanja Dorn at Dorn Music.
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August 2024