Franck Ollu

Franck Ollu has an impressive career as a versatile and imaginative conductor, and is globally considered an expert in the field of contemporary music. Artistic Director of the Swedish Ensemble for New Music “KammarensembleN”, he often works in conjunction with leading composers and appears regularly with the world’s most prestigious ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and London Sinfonietta. He works regularly with the Philharmonia Orchestra in their Music of Today series. Franck Ollu is also an accomplished symphonic conductor, with recent highlights including concerts with the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional d’Espaņa and Orchestre National de Lyon, and future appearances with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and Orquestra Nacional do Porto.

An outstanding operatic conductor, last season Franck Ollu conducted the premiere of George Benjamin's new opera in several performances at Paris Bastille, which he tours to festivals in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Vienna and New York. Last season he also lead performances of Pascal Dusapin's opera 'Medea', and Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress’, and this summer conducts a new Dusapin opera commission at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Franck Ollu was born in La Rochelle, France and studied music in Paris. He became principal horn player of the Ensemble Modern in 1990, and first started conducting in 1999 when he was 2nd conductor to John Adams.

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