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Our
Music Director
A
Message from Our Music Director
Patrick Botti
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The French Symphony's
2005-2006 Season marks French-born Music Director Patrick Botti's twenty second year
as conductor of the Orchestra. |
| Born in Marseilles, Maestro
Botti holds degrees from the Marseilles Conservatory, the Paris Conservatory, and the
Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. He completed post graduate studies in Musicology at
both the Sorbonne University and the Paris Conservatory. His conducting teachers have
included Jeno Rehak, Franco Ferrara and Pierre Dervaux in Europe and Benjamin Zander,
Richard Pittman and Thomas Dunn in the United States. Patrick began his conducting career as Music
Director of the Echo du Futur Symphony Orchestra in Marseilles and went on to found and
direct the highly acclaimed Concilium Musicum of Paris, for whom he remains Artistic
Adviser. The recipient of two Fulbright Scholarships, he came to the United States in 1982
to study conducting most notably at the New England Conservatory and Boston University. He
was subsequently invited by the French Ministry of Culture to work on the restructuring of
French orchestras using American models.
Patrick has guest conducted numerous
orchestras worldwide including the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, the BBC Orchestra and the
Royal College of Music Orchestra in London, the Luxembourg Radio Television Symphony
Orchestra, the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra in Canada, the Boston Philharmonic, the New
England Conservatory Orchestras, the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the
Colorado Springs Symphony. His interpretations of both French and American music are
acclaimed worldwide, and he has been heard on National Public Radio, the CBC Network
(Canada), the BBC (London), and on French National Radio.
Patrick is also Principal Guest
Conductor of the Central Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra and was Artistic Director of the
New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra from 1993 to 2000, the longest tenure of any
conductor with that formation.. |
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