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Marc Minkowski
This artist studied bassoon performance, then
conducting with Charles Bruck at the Pierre
Monteux Memorial School in the United States.
In 1982, he founded Les Musiciens du Louvre
(since 1996 based in Grenoble), specializing in the
performance of French Baroque music (J.-B. Lully,
J.-P. Rameau, M.-A. Charpentier, M. Marais), as
well as C. Monteverdi, G. F. Handel, C. W. Gluck,
W. A. Mozart and J. Offenbach. Les Musiciens du
Louvre perform regularly on the most important
stages of France (Opéra de Paris, Opéra de Lyon,
Théatre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées,
festivals in Aix-en-Provence and Beaune), as well
as in Europe’s leading musical centers (London,
Amsterdam, Madrid, Vienna, Salzburg, etc.). Since
2003, Minkowski has been associated with the opera
in Zürich, where he has led G. F. Handel’s Il trionfo
del Tempo e del Disinganno, Agrippina and Giulio
Cesare; G. Donizetti’s La favorita, J.-P. Rameau’s
Les Boréades and L. van Beethoven’s Fidelio. He
is considered to be one of the most distinguished
conductors of his generation and a superb
interpreter of Mozart’s operatic works. Among his
most important renditions of compositions by the
Austrian master are Idomeneo at the Opéra de Paris;
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (with the Mozarteum
orchestra) at the Salzburg Festival; Le nozze di
Figaro (with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra) at
the festival in Aix-en-Provence, in Baden-Baden
and Tokyo; and Die Zauberflöte in Montpellier and
Bochum, as well as at the Opéra de Paris. His broad
repertoire encompasses works from the Baroque to
contemporary times. He pays particular attention to
composers who are little-known (J.-J. Mondonville)
or underappreciated (J. Offenbach). In recent years,
he has increasingly been turning to large symphonic
works. Aside from F. J. Haydn, L. van Beethoven,
F. Schubert and J. Brahms, he particularly
esteems the French masters – H. Berlioz, G. Bizet,
E. Chausson, G. Fauré and N. Boulanger. For
several years now, he has been a regular guest at the
world’s greatest concert halls and most prestigious
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music festivals. He collaborates with the Mahler
Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic,
the Orchestre National de France, the City of
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio France, the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris,
Staatskapelle Dresden et al. Since June 2008, he
has been music director of Sinfonia Varsovia. He
has recorded discs for the Erato, EMI and Archiv
Produktion labels. He is presently under contractual
agreement with the French label Naïve. In 2004, he
received the title of Chevalier du Mérite granted by
the President of France.