Gaspard Brécourt
Conductor, Vocal Coach
An award-winning conductor and pianist, serving as co-director of CLA France and the Artistic Director of France’s Saint-Céré Opera Festival.
After completing his musical studies at the Maîtrise de Radio France and at the Conservatoire National de Région of Boulogne-Billancourt, where he obtained 1st Prizes in piano, percussion, harmony and counterpoint, Gaspard Brécourt began a professional career as coach, répétiteur and conductor.
In the capacity of collaborative artist Mr. Brécourt has performed frequent recitals with singers such as Irina Vassilieva, Aurélie Loilier, Isabelle Philippe, Armando Noguera, Olivier Heyte, Mathias Vidal, and Martial Defontaine. Maestro Brécourt has had the great honor of working in the capacity of a coach in a variety of renowned theaters including Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, and abroad at the Teatro Colòn in Buenos-Aires.
As a foray into his conducting career he assisted Maestro Marek Janowski at the Radio-France Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique and collaborated with Maestro Jean Fournet on French lyric repertoire. Maestro Brécourt’s conducting credits include Puccini’s La Bohème, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Strauss’ Die Fledermaus with the lyric company Al’Opéra, Bach’s St. John’s Passion with the Chamber Orchestra of Versailles, and Mozart’s Così fan tutte with the Ostinato Orchestra. Additionally, he conducted this ensemble in concerts during its residency at the Paris Opéra Comique.
Maestro Brécourt was the Musical Director of the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne for the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 seasons, conducting Une Éducation Manquée by Chabrier, Jean de Paris and Ma Tante Aurore by Boieldieu, L’Arlésienne et Djamileh by Bizet, and numerous symphonic concerts. In 2009 he made his Japanese debut with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in an all-French program, as well as the world premiere of Cyrano et Roxane by the Greek composer Stavros Xarhakos at the National Greek Opera in Athens. In 2012 he conducted the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien by Debussy, as well as Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Festival de Saint Céré, France.