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Conductor at Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland / Composer (Symphonic works, Film music)



Stéphane Fromageot was born in Paris. At the age of five, he began his musical studies in violin and piano. Between 1984 and 1993 he studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, graduating with six diplomas including violin, chamber music, orchestration, harmony, counterpoint and fugue.

In Paris 1991, he was awarded the “Jeunes Prodiges-Mozart” Composition Prize for his concerto for violin, piano and chamber orchestra.

From 1992 to 1993, Stéphane Fromageot not only performed as violinist and concertmaster in the Orchestre Français des Jeunes under the direction of Marek Janowski but also won the two first editions of the Film Music Competition “Ile de France”.

From 1994 to 1997, Stéphane Fromageot studied conducting at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt/Main in Germany. During this time, he also played regularly as violinist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France and the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris.

In 1996, Stéphane Fromageot was selected to attend the Seminar for Young Conductors in Tanglewood, USA, where he participated in master classes of conductors Seiji Ozawa, Bernhard Haitink and André Previn. During the following season 1997-1998, he was invited as pianist at the Houston Opera Studio, Texas.


1998 brought Stéphane Fromageot back to Europe as conductor and head of musical studies for the Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland. In St. Gallen, he has assisted General Musical Director Jiri Kout and David Stern by conducting rehearsals for various productions including Der Rosenkavalier, Rusalka, Jenufa, Katja Kabanova or Arabella.


Stéphane Fromageot conducts a great variety of musical styles :

Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Lucia di Lammermoor,Werther, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Carmen, L'Enfant et les sortilèges, Die Fledermaus, Eugen Onegin, The Queen of Spades, Der Zwerg (Zemlinsky), Mona Lisa (Max von Schillings), Hänsel und Gretel, Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (Schostakowitsch), Le Festin de l'araignée (Albert Roussel) and also musicals like the world premiere of Frank Wildhorns The Count of Monte-Christo.


In 2005, Stéphane Fromageot was half-finalist of the Béla Bartok Opera Conducting Competition (Cluj, Romania) and finalist of the Concorso per giovanni direttori d'orchestra di Spoleto, Italy.

In 2007, he was assistant conductor of Maestro Cambreling for the production Les Troyens, at the Paris Opera.


As an opera conductor, Stéphane Fromageot has not only led performances with the Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland but he also appeared in Germany with the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich (Der Wildschütz), Theater Freiburg (Fidelio), Theater Bielefeld (Un Ballo in maschera), Theater Augsburg (Hänsel und Gretel), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Die Zauberflöte). Other guest conducting appearances include a performance with the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy et de Lorraine, and Tonhalle Orchester Zürich (May 2009).

As a film music composer, he wrote a new symphonic music for Robert Wiene's German neoexpressionist silent film "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" (1920) which has been created with the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt on February 6th 2011.

In September 2011, he conducted himself the premiere of his last composition "Filippo und der Wunderbaum", a symphonic tale for children after a book from Eveline Hasler.

 

As orchestrator, he arranged Benatzkys operetta Im weissen Rössl (Operettenbühne Vaduz – Januar 2007), and Korngolds operetta Die stumme Serenade (Jugendsinfonieorchester St. Gallen - February 2009