Pierre Bleuse (born 6 November 1977) is a French violinist and conductor.
Biography
Bleuse was born in Boulogne-Billancourt into a family of musicians: his father Marc Bleuse is a composer, his mother Anne Fondeville is an opera singer,[1] his brother Emmanuel is a cellist and his sister Jeanne is a pianist.[2] Bleuse began his musical studies on violin at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt in the classes of Jean Lenert and Suzanne Gessner.[2] He continued his studies at the Conservatoire national de région in Toulouse in the classes of Pierre Doukan and Guenadi Hoffmann from 1990. He obtained his violin and chamber music prizes in 1994.[2] He then returned to Paris and entered the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Patrice Fontanarosa.[3] He graduated with a 1st prize in 2002, and studied further at the Berlin University of the Arts.[2]
After his studies, Bleuse became a member of the Satie Quartet[3] and the ensembles Court-Circuit and TM+.[4] He was concertmaster and associate conductor of the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra from 2000 to 2010.[3] He also studied baroque violin with Gilles Colliard.[2]
In 2010, Bleuse decided to turn to conducting. He studied with Jorma Panula in Finland, and continued his conducting studies with Laurent Gay at the Geneva University of Music in 2011.[3][5] After he graduated in 2013, he became assistant to Gay.[2]
Bleuse was a co-founder and is artistic director of the Musika Orchestra Academy, a European school of orchestral studies. Bleuse became chief conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra, as well as Artistic Director of the Pablo Casals Festival, in 2021.[2][3][8] In December 2021, the Ensemble intercontemporain announced the appointment of Bleuse as its next music director, effective with the 2023–2024 season, with an initial contract of 4 years.[9]
