Introduction
Louis Langrée has been Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York since 2002 and of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2013. With the latter he has recently toured to both Asia and Europe.
Recent and future conducting projects include Louis’ debuts with the Czech Philharmonic at the Prague Spring Festival, the Orchestre National de France and the Konzerthaus Berlin Orchestra. Return engagements include the Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and the Philadelphia and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras. He will also return to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Wiener Staatsoper and Opéra Comique in Paris.
Louis’ collaborations have included the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Orchestre de Paris, Freiburg Baroque, Budapest Festival and NHK Symphony Orchestras. He has also conducted at La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Dresden Staatsoper.
He has held positions as Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and was Chief Conductor of the Camerata Salzburg. Louis was also Music Director of Opéra National de Lyon and Glyndebourne Touring Opera.
Louis’ recordings with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra feature Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait (narrated by Dr Maya Angelou) and world premieres by Currier, Escaich, Lang, Muhly and Tian. He is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.