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Biography

Music Director: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
Music Director: Orchestre Français des Jeunes

 

The 2010/11 season marks Kwamé Ryan's fourth season as Music Director of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. The orchestra’s relationship with the record label Mirare continues to thrive and now includes recordings of Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 and Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2, both receiving critical acclaim in the press. This season Kwamé will conduct Strauss’s Ariadne of Naxos.

As a guest conductor, future highlights include a new production of Berlioz Damnation of Faust for Wurttembergische Staatsoper Stuttgart in autumn 2011. Upcoming debuts include concerts with Orchestre National de Belgique in June 2011 and an appearance at the Grant Park Festival, Chicago in July 2011.

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Sample discography

Schubert: Symphony No. 9
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2

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Excerpt from Rachmaninov's Symphony 2 (Courtesy of Mirare)
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Reviews

“…an individual approach to Schubert, clear, transparent, flowing, going against the grain of a whole tradition of over-romantic interpretations of this symphony.” (Le Figaro, January 2008)

“A la fois incroyablement précis et d’un swing contagieux, Kwamé Ryan consacre toute son énergie et sa rigueur a la mise en valeur de cette partition.” (Le Figaro, November 2009)

“This all gives Le Balcon massively improved viability and it certainly worked its magic on the first-night audience, not least because Kwamé Ryan’s conducting of a kaleidoscope of ravishing textures was a feast for the ears.” (Financial Times, November 2009)

Contact

Jennifer Spencer
+44 (0)20 7313 3531
Rachel Pilkington
+44 (0)20 7722 9166

Links

Opéra National de Bordeaux website