The Philadelphia Orchestra Announces Artist Change 10/21-23

Conductor Lionel Bringuier has graciously agreed to lead The Philadelphia Orchestra in its Verizon Hall concerts on October 21, 22, and 23, 2010. These performances mark Mr. Bringuier's Philadelphia Orchestra debut. Semyon Bychkov, who was originally scheduled to lead these concerts, has regrettably withdrawn due to personal family matters. The program will include the originally scheduled Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin as well as Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with Renaud Capuçon and Musorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition. Two originally scheduled works, Dvo?ák's Symphony No. 8 and Dutilleux's L'Arbre des songes will no longer be performed as part of this program.

In the 2010-11 season Lionel Bringuier continues his roles as associate conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, a post he took up at the beginning of the 2009-10 season.

Highlights of Mr. Bringuier's recent engagements include return visits to New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, the Swedish Radio Symphony, and the BBC Symphony, as well as a debut performance at the BBC Proms. Future projects include a debut with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood and subscription debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, Hamburg's NDR Symphony, Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Orquesta Nacional d'Espana, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the Oslo Philharmonic, in addition to return appearances with the BBC Symphony, the Radio-France Philharmonic, the Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Philarmonic. In the 2012-13 season, he will conduct a new production of Bizet's Carmen at the Royal Swedish Opera. These current performances mark his Philadelphia Orchestra debut.

First-prize winner at the 49th Besançon Young Conductors Competition in 2005, an award received by unanimous decision of the jury, Mr. Bringuier also received the Competition's Audience Award, as well as The Players Award from the Competiton's orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Since the Competition, he has conducted some of the top orchestras in the world, including the Dresden Staatskapelle, the New York Philharmonic, and the Cleveland Orchestra.

Born in Nice, France, in 1986 Mr. Bringuier attended the Paris Conservatory as a cellist from the age of 13, beginning his conducting studies a year later with Zsolt Nagy. Mr. Bringuier has also participated in master classes with Peter Eötvös and János Fürst. In June 2004 he graduated with degrees in cello and conducting with highest honors. Other distinctions include the Médaille d'or à l'unanimité avec les felicitations du jury from the Prince Rainier III Academy in Monaco, the Médaille d'or from the Lord Mayor of the City of Nice, as well as first prize in a competition organized by the Janá?ek Philharmonic in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Mr. Bringuier is also the recipient of awards from the Swiss Foundation Langart and the Cziffra Foundation.

October 21 at 8:00 PM - Thursday evening - Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

October 22 at 2:00 PM - Friday afternoon - Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

October 23 at 8:00 PM - Saturday evening - Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Lionel Bringuier Conductor - Philadelphia Orchestra Debut

Renaud Capuçon Violin - Philadelphia Orchestra Subscription Debut

Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition
Tickets: $20-$130, 215.893.1999 or www.philorch.org.