Patrick Botti, Music Director-Conductor 

The French Symphony's 2006-2007 Season marks French-born Music Director Patrick Botti's twenty third year as conductor of the Orchestra.

Patrick Botti

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 a Fulbright Grant and of an Annette Kade Foundation Felloship, he came to the United States in 1982 to study conducting, composition and musicology 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 was also Principal Guest Conductor of the Central Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra  from 1992 to 2003 and was Artistic Director of the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra from  1993 to 2000.