After studying the piano and conducting at the Paris National
Conservatoire, Jean-Luc Tingaud was chosen by Manuel Rosenthal to be his
assistant. Rosenthal, himself a pupil of Maurice Ravel, was a formative
influence, instilling in the younger man his passion for French music.
Opera has always been one of Jean-Luc Tingaud's main interests. Since
2001 he has been a regular guest at the Wexford Festival where, amongst
other things, he has conducted Massenet’s Sapho, Fauré’s Pénélope,
and Chabrier’s Le Roi malgré lui. Other engagements have included
Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
in Lisbon, Werther at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina
Franca, La Damnation de Faust in Reims, Pelléas et Mélisande
and Carmen at the Opéra de Toulon, Le Siège de Corinthe at
the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, Faust at the Macerata Festival, The
Turn of the Screw at the Opéra de Lille, L’Heure espagnole
with l’Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris, Dialogues des carmélites,
Madama Butterfly and La bohème for Pittsburgh Opera, Pelléas
et Mélisande at the Prague National Theatre, The Pearl Fishers
for English National Opera, Roméo et Juliette at the Arena di
Verona, La Fille du régiment at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Die
Entführung aus dem Serail for The Grange Festival and Carmen
at the New National Theatre Tokyo.
His discography includes Sapho recorded at Wexford (Fonè), Werther
recorded at Martina Franca (Dynamic), La Voix humaine recorded at
Compiègne (DVD) and Le Siège de Corinthe (Naxos) recorded at Bad
Wildbad. Recently he has begun a series of recordings of symphonic music
for Naxos, including music by Dukas (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, La
Péri and Symphony in C), Bizet (Roma, Patrie, Jeux
d’enfants etc.) and Poulenc (Les Biches, Sinfonietta
and Les Animaux modèles) with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
in Dublin, and music by d’Indy (including his Symphony No.2),
César Franck (symphonic poems including the complete Psyché) and
Massenet (including his only symphonic poem Visions) with the
Royal Scottish National Orchestra. His recording of both symphonies of
Franck and Chausson with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra was released
in January 2024.
In 2004 he made his London debut at the Barbican conducting the English
Chamber Orchestra. Other orchestras he has worked with include the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National
Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Filarmonica
Arturo Toscanini, the Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, the
Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Warsaw and Krakow
Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire,
Orchestre National de Lyon and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and he
has recently been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Beethoven
Academy Orchestra in Krakow.
Recent engagements have included Spontini’s Fernand Cortez at the
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Donizetti’s L’ange de Nisida at the
Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, which received the Special Prize from
the jury of the Premio Franco Abbiati, Italy’s most prestigious classical
music awards. In 2023 he made his debut at the National Centre for the
Performing Arts, Beijing conducting Lakmé.
To mark the centenary of the death of Gabriel Fauré, he recorded his the
complete orchestral works that have just been released in a three CD set
by Naxos, including many world premieres.
April 2025