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François-Xavier ROTH, Conductor
Ritsuyu-kai, Chorus
François-Xavier Roth (Conductor)
François-Xavier Roth is one of today’s most charismatic conductors. General Music Director of Cologne
since 2015, he is also Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Associate
Artist of the Philharmonie de Paris.
He works with the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Boston Symphony, San Francisco
Symphony, Cleveland, Montreal Symphony and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras.
In 2003, he founded Les Siècles, which performs on modern and period instruments, with whom he has
given concerts throughout Europe and toured China and Japan.
His recordings of the complete tone poems of Richard Strauss and Stravinsky’s The Firebird, Petrushka
and The Rite of Spring, are all widely acclaimed. With Les Siècles, he is recording a complete Ravel cycle.
Daphnis and Chloé, and Ma mère l’Oye, have each received awards as has Mirages, a vocal recital with
Sabine Devieilhe. He has recorded Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the Gürzenich orchestra.
Engagement with new audiences is an essential part of François-Xavier Roth’s work. With Les Siècles,
he devised Presto!, for France 2 TV, attracting weekly audiences of over 3 million.
A tireless champion of contemporary music, he has been conductor of the LSO Panufnik Scheme since
2005, premiered many new works and collaborated with Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Rihm, Jörg Widmann
and Helmut Lachenmann.
François-Xavier Roth was created a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in 2017.
since 2015, he is also Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Associate
Artist of the Philharmonie de Paris.
He works with the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Boston Symphony, San Francisco
Symphony, Cleveland, Montreal Symphony and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras.
In 2003, he founded Les Siècles, which performs on modern and period instruments, with whom he has
given concerts throughout Europe and toured China and Japan.
His recordings of the complete tone poems of Richard Strauss and Stravinsky’s The Firebird, Petrushka
and The Rite of Spring, are all widely acclaimed. With Les Siècles, he is recording a complete Ravel cycle.
Daphnis and Chloé, and Ma mère l’Oye, have each received awards as has Mirages, a vocal recital with
Sabine Devieilhe. He has recorded Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the Gürzenich orchestra.
Engagement with new audiences is an essential part of François-Xavier Roth’s work. With Les Siècles,
he devised Presto!, for France 2 TV, attracting weekly audiences of over 3 million.
A tireless champion of contemporary music, he has been conductor of the LSO Panufnik Scheme since
2005, premiered many new works and collaborated with Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Rihm, Jörg Widmann
and Helmut Lachenmann.
François-Xavier Roth was created a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in 2017.
Ritsuyu-kai (Chorus)
Ritsuyukai consists of 4 mixed choirs, 6 female choirs and 2 male choirs with KURIYAMA Fumiaki as music director and conductor. Each group also acts as the Ritsuyukai while performing concerts, performing trips and recording. In recent years, he has performed with major orchestras such as the New Japan Philharmonic and Beethoven's "Ninth" special concert, Britten's "War Requiem" and Mahler's "Symphony No. 8" by Harding, Orff's "Carmina Burana" by Kamioka Toshiyuki, Haydn's "Four Seasons" by Yeannin, Brahms's "Germany Requiem" by Billy, and Mendelssohn's "Symphony No. 2 Hymn" by Numajiri Ryusuke. And with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Rabel’s "Daphnis and Chloe," by Lotto and Bartok’s " The Miraculous Mandarin," by Ono Kazushi, etc.
http://www.ritsuyukai.com/
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http://www.ritsuyukai.com/
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