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national competitions, including the prestigious Queen ElisabethCompetition in Brussels in 2000. He has since appearedon French and foreign stages in roles from the mainstreamrepertory: Debussy (Golaucl), Verdi (Nabucco, Germont),Puccini (Scarpia), Saint-Saens (The High Priest of Dagon),Berlioz (Mephistopheles), Mozart (Leporello, Don Alfonso),Rossini (Figaro), Tchaikovsky (Onegin), under the direction ofconductors such as Nello Santi, Michel Plasson, Jean-ClaudeMalgoire, Philippe Herreweghe, Nicolas Chalvin, EmmanuelKrivine and Jean-Yves Ossonce. In concerts Pierre-Yves Pruvotexplores the repertory of songs with orchestra, and since1993 has formed with the pianist Charles Bouisset a duet devotedto the lied and song.Jean-Yves OssonceJean-Yves Ossonce has led an international career since1991, the date of his debut in England, where he frequentlyappears. Invited to the Edinburgh Festival from 1994 onwards,he has conducted there Brisgis by Emmanuel Chabrier. Apartfrom this work, his discography includes the complete symphoniesof Alberic Magnard, the Suites for orchestra by JulesMassenet, the piano concertos of Reynaldo Hahn and JulesMassenet and an opera by Guy Ropartz, Le Pays, that received,among other awards, the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis.Since his appointment toTours Opera in 1999, Jean-Yves Ossoncehas devoted a major part of his activities to regionalmusical life, while still pursuing a career as guest conductor,especially abroad: Welsh National Opera, English NationalOpera, Opera North, Edinburgh Festival, Orchestre Nationalde Belgique, Slovak Philharmonic, Deutsche Oper in Berlin,Staatsoper in Hamburg, San Francisco Opera, MontrealOpera, \Warsaw Philharmonic, TeatroVerdi inTrieste, Capitolede Toulouse, Orchestra of Radio Leipzig, Lausanne Opera,Montpellier National Opera, Festival of Prague, etc. His repertoryincludes a broad range of operatic and symphonic works,blending mainstream repertory and less frequently performedworks. At the invitation of theTh62tre du Ch2telet in Paris, hehas for example conducted, in June 2009, the stage premiereof Pastorale by Gerard Pesson. His activity at the head of theOpera and Orchestre Syniphonique Region Centre-Tours wascrowned in June 2008 by the Claude Rostantl Prize, awardedby the Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique, for the newproduction of Ropartz' Le &)a).s, given in January 2008 ('finestopera production premiered in the provinces').The Orchestre Symphonique RCgion Centre-ToursThe heir to the Orchestre Symphonique deTours, createdin '1 960, the Orchestre Symphonique Region Centre- lourshas been directed by Jean-Yves Ossonce since 1995. Underhis zgis it has been able to evolve, and today, in partnershipwith the Conseil Regional du Centre and the city ofTours, hasbecome one of the major cultural forces in the Region Centreand one of France's most dynamic formations. Since 2001,fortified by national recognition of its operatic and symphonicactivities, it honours its regional mission of propagatingsymphonic music to all audiences, in collaboration with leadingor up-and-coming French soloists.Throughout its concertseason, at the GrandTheitre deTours or in Region Centre, theOrchestre Symphonique Region Centre-Tours has at the heartof its activities encounters with the public and notably withits youngest members. More than 2000 children each yearreceive the first keys of the orchestra, thus preparing them tobecome the music-loving public of tomorrow.