Pascal
Verrot studied at the Sorbonne and at the Paris
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
where he was awarded a top prize for conducting.
He subsequently gained further experience with Franco
Ferrara at the Chigiana musical academy of Sienna
in Italy.
He came to
the notice of Seiji
Ozawa during the Tokyo International conducting
competition that he won in 1985 and became his assistant
at the Boston Symphony orchestra from September
1986 to June 1990.
Since then,
his career has progressed rapidly. He is the regular
guest of numerous prestigious orchestras in Europe
as well as in Japan or in North America. He was
musical director of the Quebec
Symphony orchestra from 1991 to the end of 1997.
In North America, he directed the Boston and the
San Antonio Symphony orchestras and the State of
Utah Symphony orchestra together with the Montreal,
Toronto and Quebec symphony orchestras.
Pascal Verrot
has also conducted opera productions, in particular
die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss at the Lyon Opera
and Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur
de Musique to celebrate the year of Mozart. After
conducting Cosi fan tutte, and two ballets at Metz
Opera, he has also conducted Daphnis and Chloé
by Ravel and Le Festin de l’Araignée
(The Spider’s Feast) by Roussel, Don Giovanni,
Cosi fan tutte and Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart,
Pelléas et Mélisande by Debussy and
l’Opéra d’Aran by Gilbert Bécaud,
This season, he has conducted the Mozart/Da Ponte
trilogy and next season, he will be conducting Don
Quixote by Massenet. He has also conducted Gounod’s
Faust for the opening of the new Shanghai Opera.
He has recorded
Italian opera pieces with the tenor Luca Canonici
and the orchestra and choir of Lyon Opera (Erato),
the first recording of a Roussel series for FNAC
Music, concertos for piano with the Monte-Carlo
Orchestra written by film music composers, a Jean
Guy Ropartz recording with the Brittany Orchestra,
the work for cello and orchestra by Saint-Saëns,
for Arion and with Dominique de Williencourt, and
finally a recording of Brahms-Beethoven with the
Lorraine Philharmonic.
He has been
musical director of the Orchestre
de Picardie since January 2003. In April 2006,
he is named principal conductor of the Sendai
Philharmonic (Japan).
