2024-02-07 17:50:24
“After living in Germany for many years, I felt the need to immerse myself in French culture,” explains Thomas Hengelbrock. Mina Esfandiari
The founder of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble will succeed Lars Vogt, who died in September 2022. The most Francophile of German conductors will open the 2024-2025 season on September 7 at the Panthéon.
On September 19, Thomas Hengelbrock opened the 2023-2024 season of the Paris Chamber Orchestra as guest conductor. It is as musical director that he will open his 2024-2025 season, on September 7 at the… Panthéon! The chef will direct, as part of Paris 2024 and on the eve of the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games, the Requiem of Gabriel Fauré, whose hundred years since his death we are commemorating this year.
Quite a symbol for someone who chose to settle in Paris with his wife and child two and a half years ago. “After living in Germany for many years, I felt the need to immerse myself in French culture, he explains with pride, seated in a café a stone’s throw from the Luxembourg Gardens – not far from the district where he has settled. I have always been fascinated by your relationship to history. And I am convinced that our two countries have a very important link in the idea of European culture.” France, this enthusiast…
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