Orchestre des Pays de Savoie & Pieter-Jelle de Boer
Biography Orchestre des Pays de Savoie & Pieter-Jelle de Boer
The Orchestre des Pays de Savoie
is a professional chamber orchestra made up of 23 permanent musicians (19 strings, 2 oboes, 2 horns), under the musical direction of Pieter-Jelle de Boer since September 2021.
Created in 1984 under the impetus of the Savoie and Haute-Savoie départements, the Rhône-Alpes region and the French Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie has been directed by Patrice Fontanarosa, Tibor Varga, Mark Foster, Graziella Contratto and Nicolas Chalvin.
The Orchestre des Pays de Savoie is a member of the national network of permanent regional orchestras. It designs and develops a range of concerts for a variety of audiences, touring throughout the year in Savoie, Haute-Savoie, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France and abroad. With 80 concerts given each year, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie promotes its activities throughout the region by forging partnerships with cultural players (associations, festivals, national stages, etc.), local authorities and the business community.
Since its creation, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie has been strongly committed to raising awareness of classical music among all kinds of audiences, thanks to numerous performances in schools and universities, hospitals, prisons and retirement homes.
Since its creation, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie has earned its place and reputation in the national musical landscape. Its musical excellence and the variety of its repertoire, its major guest artists, its wide regional distribution, its involvement in the training and integration of young professional musicians and its actions to raise awareness of music are the main thrusts of a proactive policy of cultural development of the region and widening the audience for music.
Pieter-Jelle de Boer
is a Dutch conductor, pianist and organist with a remarkably rich palet of musical activities and a repertoire covering music from the early Baroque through the present day. He is currently Music Director of the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie.
Based in France, he has conducted many of the country’s orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, the orchestras of Toulouse, Bordeaux, Metz and Pays de la Loire as well as Avignon and Picardie. In the Netherlands, he has is regularly invited as a guest conductor and has worked with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Residentie Orchestra, the South Netherlands Philharmonic and the North Netherlands Orchestra. In 2023, he is to make his debut with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Cannes and the Orchestre Victor-Hugo Besançon.
His critically acclaimed recordings include the two violin concertos by Castelnuovo-Tedesco with Tianwa Yang and the Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, choral works by Janáček with chamber choir Accentus, as well as piano works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Sergei Rachmaninov.
Pieter-Jelle de Boer holds a Premier Prix in conducting from the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, as well as advanced degrees in piano and organ from the Amsterdam Conservatoire. He is a laureate of the Antonio Pedrotti international conducting competition in Trento, as well as the international organ competitions of Alkmaar and Freiberg.
An avid composer and transcriber, he has written Ciacona, for piano solo, and Danses concertantes, for organ, brass and percussion. His orchestration of the Suite for organ by Maurice Duruflé has been edited by Durand and performed in France and Norway.
