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Léonard Ganvert

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Violoniste et danseur de formation, Léonard Ganvert a étudié au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (Prix de direction d’orchestre, d’analyse musicale, d’orchestration et d’esthétique) et à l’Université Paris IV-Sorbonne (Maîtrise en gestion et administration de la musique).

Léonard a assisté à la préparation de nombreuses productions à l’Opéra National de Paris : Damnation de Faust, La Belle au Bois Dormant, Boris Godounov, Le Lac des Cygnes, Madame Butterfly, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Arabella et Carmen.

Il s’est également perfectionné auprès de William CHRISTIE, de Riccardo MUTI, de Myung-Whun CHUNG, Arie van BEEK, Pierre-André VALADE, Graziella CONTRATTO, Dominique MY, Philippe FERRO et Pierre BOULEZ. Léonard a dirigé les musiciens de l’Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, l’Orchestre Symphonique de Berne, l’Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, l’Orchestra ICO della Magna Grecia (Italie), la Philharmonie JANACEK d’Ostrava, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, l’Orchestre Symphonique de la Hongrie du Nord, l’Orchestre de Bretagne…

A assisté Kenneth WEISS (Les Noces de Figaro de MOZART, 2010, CNSMDP) et Laurent GAY (Les Maîtres-Chanteurs de Nuremberg en français, 2011-2012, La Chaux-de-Fonds – Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra Bastille à Paris – Opéra royal de Versailles).

Entre 2011 et 2015, Léonard a assisté le Maestro Jesús LOPEZ COBOS (Wiener Staatsoper, La Cenerentola ; Deutsche Oper de Berlin, La Gioconda ; Grand Théâtre de Genève, I Puritani ; Opéra de Lausanne, L’Elisir d’Amore et Manon ; Festival de Verbier, L’Elisir d’Amore, à nouveau…).
Léonard a fondé en 2002 Les Concerts d’Athalie, puis en 2012 Les Soirées de l’orchestre, troupe de jeunes artistes professionnels.

Lauréat de la Fondation de la Vocation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet et du Lions Clubs International, Léonard a aussi reçu le Prix d’Honneur des 32nd Masterplayers International Music Competition (Lugano – Suisse). Il a été l’un des trois finalistes du 2e Concorso Nino Rota (seul Français sélectionné, Italie, octobre 2017).

Depuis décembre 2018, Léonard dirige les spectacles de ballets à l’Opéra de Nice (Faust, GOUNOD ; Les deux Pigeons, MESSAGER ; En Sol, RAVEL ; Pas de Dieux, GERSHWIN ; Don Quichotte, MINKUS).
Il y est invité à nouveau en septembre-octobre (Rhapsodie, RACHMANINOFF et Démons et Merveilles, BLOCH, KOSMA) et en décembre 2022 (Coppélia, DELIBES). Léonard dirigera également la Route Lyrique de l’Opéra de Lausanne (L'Île de Tulipatan, OFFENBACH) en mai-juillet 2023.

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Léonard Ganvert was born on January 30, 1986 in Paris. He began his musical studies very early.
His idea of ​​becoming a conductor was born one evening in April 1997, when Léonard – only eleven years old – attended a concert conducted by his grandfather, André Jouve, former music director at Radio France . His wand, he receives it for his 14th birthday from the hands of this same grandfather. His first weapons, he made them with two amateur orchestras.
In March 2000, he completed an internship in the dance department of the Opéra national de Paris, with the general manager of dance, Renaud Fauviau. This allows him to discover the development of very high quality shows and confirms his vocation to become a conductor.

 

Trained by his mother, Sophie Jouve-Ganvert, for ten years, he obtained, in 2001, the First Prize for musical training in the centralized examinations of the City of Paris, and, a student of 1st at the Lycée Racine in Paris, he directed the school symphony orchestra. The first concert – December 20, 2001 –, the proceeds of which were donated to Robert-Debré Hospital, was rewarded with the awarding of the first Lilly Diabetes Trophy (November 17, 2002 – Maison de la Chimie, Paris), created to reveal , support and promote an original and personal initiative.

 

Proud and happy with this experience, Léonard founded his own symphony orchestra Les Concerts d'Athalie on October 18, 2002, with the dual intention of offering his fellow musicians real orchestral work by "waking up" a somewhat neglected repertoire, between two famous pages and future creations, seeking quality, the pleasure of learning and playing, and continuing to work for medical research by offering the proceeds of its concerts. At the same time, Léonard founded a string quartet: the Quatuor Philomoussos , in which he held the part of First Violin.

 

Léonard was rewarded with the First Prize of the 2003 Young Quality Contest , awarded by Lions Clubs International .

 

After obtaining a literary baccalaureate (June 2003), he began a university course in musicology at the Sorbonne (Paris IV).

 

In March 2004, Léonard carried out an internship in the service of the choirs of the Opéra national de Paris , for La Damnation de Faust by Berlioz (dir. Sir Mark Elder), then another in November, in the service of the musical formations of the Opera , for Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikowsky (dir. Paul Connelly) and finally, for Boris Godunov by Moussorgsky (dir. Alexander Vedernikov, April 2005).

 

In May 2005, he obtained the 1st Prize in orchestral conducting at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rueil-Malmaison.

 

He was also awarded a prestigious award: 1st Prize at the Lilly Partnership in Diabetes International Competition (San Diego – California, May 2005).

A few months later, Léonard became Laureate of the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation for Vocation .

 

Two new courses follow one another at the Opera: Swan Lake by Tchaikowsky (dir. Vello Pähn, December 2005), and Madame Butterfly by Puccini (dir. Marco Balderi, January 2006).

 

At the head of the musicians of the orchestra of the National Opera of Paris , he recorded a CD sold for the benefit of research on diabetes and gave with these same musicians an exceptional concert within the framework of the International Congress of ALFEDIAM ( French Language Association for the Study of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases) , at the Palais des Congrès in Paris (March 10, 2006). In November 2006, Léonard received the Action Trophy for AJD-Lilly Research .

 

From 2006 to 2010, he followed the teaching of Zsolt Nagy in the orchestra conducting class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) . He took part in several Masterclasses with Arie van Beek, Istvan Pàrkaï, Pierre-André Valade, Graziella Contratto, Dominique My, Philippe Ferro, Lázsló Kovács and Pierre Boulez, and conducted the Orchester d'Auvergne, the Orchester des Lauréats du Conservatory, the Conservatory Orchestra, the Janáček Philharmonic of Ostrava (Czech Republic), the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchester des Pays de Savoie, the Symphony Orchestra of Northern Hungary, the Ensemble Court -Circuit , the Ensemble Fa and the Orchester de Bretagne.

 

Léonard perfected his skills with William Christie ( Zampa by Hérold, Opéra Comique , March 2008), Riccardo Muti ( Requiem by Verdi, Radio France , May 2009), Jesús López Cobos ( Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Offenbach, Opéra national de Paris , April–May 2010), Philippe Jordan ( Arabella by Strauss and Carmen by Bizet, Opéra national de Paris , May–June and November 2012) and Myung-Whun Chung ( 4th Symphony by Brahms , Radio France , June 2014 ).

 

Graduated in writing, musical training, violin, chamber music and classical dance, Léonard also has a license and a master's degree in musicology (Management and Administration of Music) from the Sorbonne . At the CNSMDP , Léonard obtained the prizes for analysis (class of Alain Louvier), orchestra conducting (class of Zsolt Nagy), orchestration (class of Marc-André Dalbavie) and aesthetics (class of Christian Accaoui).

 

On the occasion of the State visit of the President of the Russian Federation (Paris, March 2010), Léonard performed an orchestration for the Music of the Guardians of the Peace . His orchestration of the Meistersinger of Nuremberg has been performed at La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) and at the Royal Opera of Versailles (2011-2012). Co-arranger of Requiem pour un déporté by Chrystel Marchand and Fragonard by Gabriel Pierné, he also participates in the Youth Orchestra project, Device for musical and orchestral education with a social vocation (DEMOS) , Salle Pleyel.

 

Musical director of the Choir and Orchestra of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris, 2010/2011), Léonard was also artistic director of the Festival du Pays Briard from 2011 to 2014.

 

Léonard was assistant conductor to Kenneth Weiss for Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (2010, CNSMDP), to Laurent Gay for Les Meisters-Singers of Nuremberg in French (2011-2012, La Chaux-de-Fonds – Opera Amphitheater Bastille in Paris – Royal Opera of Versailles ), then Jesús López Cobos for I Puritani ( Grand Théâtre de Genève – January 2011), for L'Elisir d'Amore (Lausanne Opera – September/October 2012, and Verbier Festival – July 2014), for La Cenerentola ( Wiener Staatsoper – December 2012/January 2013), for La Gioconda (Deutsche Oper Berlin / January 2014) and for Manon (Lausanne Opera – September-October 2014).

 

Léonard founded Les Soirées de l'Orchestre in 2012 , an ensemble of young professional musicians.

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Léonard received the Prix d'Honneur [orchestral direction] from the 32nd Masterplayers International Music Competition 2012 (Lugano – Switzerland) and was selected for the final rounds of the Concorso internazionale di musica Giuseppe Patané (Italy). He participated in the Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition (Spain, December 2013 & 2017), the 7th Concorso Luigi Mancinelli (Italy, July 2016), the 1st Concorso Nino Rota (only French selected, Italy, October 2016), the 1st Mendelssohn Competition (Greece, November 2016), at the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors(May 2013, April 2015 and May 2017) and at the 1st International Competition for Opera Conductors in Liège (August 2017). Recently, Léonard was one of the three finalists of the 2nd Concorso Nino Rota (only Frenchman selected, Italy, October 2017).

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Léonard conducted Offenbach's Ba-Ta-Clan with Les Concerts d'Athalie . He also directed the production of a Traviata with the Opera è mobile company (summer 2016, performances in Paris [Musée d'Orsay…], London and Shanghai) and Norma by Bellini in concert version (Paris, January 2017). 

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In December 2018, Léonard conducted the Orchester Philharmonique Nice  in the new production of the ballet  Nice Méditerranée  [choreographies by director Éric Vu-An] at the Opéra de Nice Côte d'Azur [Alpes maritimes, France] ( Faust by Charles Gounod and The Two Pigeons by André Messager). He also conducted there in December 2019 ( En Sol by Maurice Ravel and Pas de Dieux by George Gershwin). He was invited there again in December 2020 to direct  Minkus' Don Quixote .

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