Jean-Christophe Spinosi

Jean-Christophe Spinosi (born 2 September 1964) is a French conductor, violinist, and founder of the Ensemble Matheus.

Life and career In 1991, Spinosi founded the Ensemble Matheus, an internationally performing orchestra, in Brest, France.

In 2005, Spinosi and the Ensemble Matheus began a series of recordings dedicated to the composer Vivaldi,

Spinosi has collaborated with artists such as Cecilia Bartoli, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, and Philippe Jaroussky. With Jaroussky, he recorded the album Heroes for Virgin Classics.

Beginning in 2007, Spinosi conducted new opera productions each season with the Ensemble Matheus at the Théâtre du Châtelet. He has also performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Theater an der Wien, and the Vienna State Opera.

Spinosi has conducted numerous orchestras, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Orchestre de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Orchestre du Festival de Verbier, the Handel and Haydn Society, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and the Hamburg State Opera. In 2021, Spinosi conducted the Berlin Philharmonic.

Spinosi and Cecilia Bartoli collaborated on two Rossini operas: Otello at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Salzburg Festival, and La Cenerentola at the Salzburg Festival.

His albums for Deutsche Grammophon —Lucifer with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Miroirs with the Ensemble Matheus—won the "Choc" award from Classica magazine.

In 2017 and 2018, he worked with the Quebec ensemble, Les Violons du Roy, and contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux for the opera Carmen. Other engagements included performances with Ensemble Matheus and the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra, Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Royal Swedish Opera, three productions at the Vienna State Opera (Carmen, The Barber of Seville, and La Cenerentola), and a concert at the Prince's Palace of Monaco leading the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.

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