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*Education *Career *Seasons - Concerts And Recordings -Concerts All Audiences *Repertoire

Education

Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut studied at the Superior National Music Conservatoire of Paris (CNSM) and obtained in 1989 the 1st Prize in harpsichord in Robert Veyron-Lacroix’s class, the 1st Prize in continued bass in Laurence Boulay’s class and the 1st Prize in chamber music in Maurice Bourgue’s class. At the same time, she entered the Superior Conservatoire of the Licéo in Barcelona in conducting in Antoni Ros-Marbà’s class.

Her education as a harpsichordist allowed her to work as a coach with artists such as Ruggero Raimondi (Don Giovanni), Teresa Berganza (Rinaldo de Haendel) with Alain Lombard at the Bordeaux Aquitaine Orchestra and with the National Ile-de-France Orchestra in chamber music programmes.

She won the 1st Prize in conducting in Spain at the International Competition of the Spanish Ministry of Culture with the Opera Orchestra of Madrid.

She was awarded a scholarship to be majored in chamber music at the Banff Center School of Fine Arts in Canada where she practised with John Gibbons (harpsichord) Robert Aitken (flute) and Franz Helmersson (cello).

When she came back, numerous work sessions with Manuel Rosenthal gave her the opportunity to deepen her knowledge in French music and then she got onto phenomenology thanks to Sergiù Celibidache.

Career

She has regularly been invited by Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, Lille National Orchestra, the Real Filharmonia of Galicia (St Jacques de Compostelle- Spain), Pasdeloup Orchestra (Paris), Colonne Orchestra (Paris), the CNSM’s Winners’ Orchestra (Paris), Brussels Orchestral Ensemble, Reunion Island Regional Orchestra, Lausanne Camerata, Lausanne Sinfonietta (Switzerland).

She also accompanied the soloists Cédric Tiberghien, Anne Queffelec (piano), Nemanya Radulovic, Olivier Charlier, Pierre Amoyal (violin), Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Ruggero Raimondi, Térésa Berganza, José Van Dam, Wilhemina Fernandez (singing) Francis Orval (horn), Michel Portal (clarinet).

In 1996, she was nominated assistant conductor at the Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra, gave several concerts at the Filature, conducted the International Brass Competition of Guebwiller (1997) and conducted the overture of the Medina Festival in Tunis (twin town with Mulhouse).

From 1998 to 2006, she had the artistic responsibility of the shows of the Cadre Noir of Saumur and conducted their gala parties in China with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, in Tokyo with Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, in Paris Bercy with Patrick Dupond, at the Heysel in Brussels with José Van Dam.

In 2000, Mélanie Thiébaut organised a concert in Paris sponsored by Jean-Claude Carrière and Danielle Mitterrand in aid of Dalaï Lama’s educational works.

From 2000 to 2005, she gave conducting initiation classes at the National Conservatoire of Region Paris where she set up L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (The Child and the Spells) by M. Ravel among others.

Since 2003, her collaboration with Liège Philharmonic Orchestra has allowed her to conduct great repertoire such as Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev, Petrouchka by Stravinski, Don Quichotte by Strauss …

In 2005, she created the Manifesto Orchestra in which she was the artistic and musical director. This orchestra had the mission to make music meet with other arts or other forms of thinking such as: music and painting, music and acoustics, music and psychoanalysis, music and philosophy …

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Concerts And Recordings

Between 2006 and 2008 Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut has conducted: Swan Lake by Tchaikovski (choreography by Matthew Bourne) at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris, the CNSMDP’s Winners’ Orchestra, the Real Filharmonia of Galicia in St Jacques de Compostelle (Spain), The Little Sweep by B. Britten (staged by Ignatio Garcia) with Lausanne Camerata Orchestra at the Opera House of Lausanne, several concerts with Liège Philharmonic Orchestra. She met Wilhemina Fernandez for several arias concerts on Reunion Island. She conducted La Bohème by Puccini with the French-speaking Switzerland Sinfonietta at the Opera House of Lausanne, the 1st edition of the International Competition for the Interpretation of French Music chaired by Gary Hoffmann in Paris with the Manifesto Orchestra, Reunion Island Regional Orchestra with Michel Portal …

Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut recorded :
TV: Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the animals) for « Musiques au cœur » (Music at the heart) on France 2 with Eve Ruggieri.
DVD: The Cadre Noir of Saumur and José Van Dam.
CD: recordings at the CNSMDP for the improvement degrees.
     "The Magic of Adagios" - Bayard Musique - Bizet, Ravel, Barber, Ives ... Orchestra Manifesto.
RADIO: recording of « La Bohème » at the Opera House of Lausanne for Radio Suisse Romande (the French-speaking Switzerland Radio).

Concerts All Audiences

In addition to her passion for the opera, Melanie Levy-Thiébaut has a mind of a « teller ». In this way she has created concepts of concerts « all audiences » on various themes and linking music to other research fields. She has written the texts, has developed them and has told them with the symphonic orchestra as a support. Here are some examples:

Music and Entomology with Lille National Orchestra
Music: Le Festin de l’araignée (The Spider’s Feast) by Albert Roussel
Support: the film Microcosmos, Robert Desnos’ poems and the Entomology Treaty by Henry Fabre who inspired Albert Roussel.

Music and History: the year 1930 with Lille National Orchestra
Music: I. Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, E.Varèse: Intégrales, Chostakovitch: Jazz suite
Support: Reflection on three places of composers in the view of the rising of extremisms.

Music and Elizabethan Literature with Liège Philharmonic Orchestra
Music: Romeo and Juliet by Serge Prokofiev
Support: Romeo and Juliet by W. Shakespeare. The encounter of the great playwright with the conductor. A passionate dialogue begin where the text of Shakespeare and the visionary music of Prokofiev confront each other.

Repertoire