Celebrated French conductor comes to town

Famous conductor Jean Deroyer will share the stage with the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet and Symphony Orchestra, in a concert performance at the city Opera House today.

The concert is sponsored by the French Consulate General in HCMC, Culturesfrance, HCMC Ballet and Symphony Orchestra and Air France.

The artists, including renowned Vietnamese pianist Ly Giai Hoa, will perform Ma Mere l’Oye by Maurice Ravel, piano concerto Op.24 by Camille Saint-Saens, the Spider's Banquet by Albert Roussel and many other masterpieces.

Jean Deroyer was born in 1979.

At the age of fifteen he enrolled at the Conservatoire National Superieu de Musique in Paris where he studied conducting and harmony with world-class musicians, winning five first prizes.

He won the Orchestre National de France award in the competition initiated by Kurt Masur and has worked at the Orchestre National de-France ever since.

He has performed at the Théatre du Chatelet in Paris, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lille.

Deroyer also conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France and the Ensemble Intercontemporain performing Le Chevalier Imaginaire by Philippe Fenelon, and the most recent composition by Hanspeter Kyburz at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Ly Giai Hoa, currently head of the Opera Section of the HCMC Ballet and Symphony Orchestra, was trained in Vietnam and China's Shanghai City.

The concert will be directed by People's Artist Vu Viet Cuong.

Source:TN