Sylvain Gasançon
Conductor
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“"The French conductor is in his prime !"” El Universal, Mexico City
“It is not the first visit of Sylvain Gasançon, Orchestra Director to our country (Argentina). Years ago he appeared as leader of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic with the Colón. At that time, his presentation made an optimal impression on me. The current one shows him consolidated and definitely established as a symphonic conductor .... Gasançon presented a full, compact orchestra, amalgamated with very refined sounds, managing to expose a wide range of nuances. As expected, the public burst into a warm ovation at the quality of what was offered" Association of Music Critics, by Donato Décima, Buenos Aires, 2019 (National Symphony Orchestra, Argentina).” Donato Décima, Asociación de Críticos Musicales de la Argentina
“"As expected, the public burst into a warm ovation at the quality of what was offered"” Asociación de Críticos Musicales de la Argentina
“... an exhibition of the best that the orchestra could possibly sound: controlled, concentrated and mindfully attentive. The French conductor is in his prime, and one hears the intellectual in the articulation of his discourse. There is an efficiency how, in few rehearsals, he achieves just what he needs to configure sound-wise, and he is easily followed by the musicians behind their stands.” El Universal
Biography
Sylvain Gasançon has quickly become an established conductor in the international scene. He consistently receives public and critical acclaim for his powerful and exciting interpretations of works by composers that range from Brahms to Berio, and from Messiaen to Korngold and Schoenberg.
Sylvain Gasançon won first prize in the International Eduardo Mata Conducting Competition in Mexico in 2005. The following year, he was awarded second prize at the International Jorma Panula Conducting Competition in Vaasa, Finland.
Sylvain Gasançon in his second season as Music and Artistic Director of the OFUNAM in Mexico, one of the most prestigious orchestras in Latin America. In 2024 the season starts with "Vienna in the 1900 hundreds", (which will include the performance of works by Gustav Mahler with Das Lied von Erde, Symphony Nº 9 and the Adagio from the 10th Symphony) as well as the Second Vienna School, with works by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton von Webern, as well as various premiers, including Mexican composer Federico Ibarra´s 5th Symphony
Gasançon has conducted orchestras of prestige around the world which include the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the Vaasa City Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Lorraine, the Orchestre de Bretagne, the Teatro São Carlo Symphony Orchestra in and the Metropolitana Orchestra in Lisbon the Magdeburgische Philharmonie, Sinfonia Rotterdam, the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, the Sofia Festival Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic. He has led all main orchestras in Latin America including the OSESP (State Orchestra of Sao Paulo), Buenos Aires Philharmonic at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires National Symphony, Filarmónica de Bogotá, National Symphony of Chile, the National Symphony Orchestra in Mexico and National Ballet in Bellas Artes.
Upcoming engagements include invitations to lead the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, the Extremadura Orchestra and the Orquesta de la Region de Murcia in Spain, and he will continue a busy schedule with the OFUNAM.
He has collaborated with soloists of prestige including Peter Donohoe, Marta Argerich, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Lara St. John, Rachel Barton Pine, Simone Lamsma, Leonard Elschenbroich, Nicolas Dautricourt, Benedetto Lupo, Alex Klein and Lucas Macías Navarro.
His first conducting teacher was Jean-Sébastien Béreau. He subsequently received guidance from conductors Gerhard Markson at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Fondazione Chigiana in Siena, Jorma Panula and Pinchas Zukerman at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and Jorma Panula in Lausanne and Saint Petersburg. He graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he studied harmony, counterpoint, analysis and orchestration.
Gasançon is also an authority on musicology and literature. He obtained a master’s degree in musicology at the Université de Paris and continues to research gender studies and literature at a specialized research institute in Paris. He received the title of Agrégé de Musique.
Born in Metz, France, he began studying music at the age of five. He gave his first violin concerts at a very early age and studied at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles with Prof. Endre Kleve.
Gasançon speaks French, Spanish, Italian, English and German.
March 2024