Franck Ollu is a very eclectic conductor and is widely acknowledged as an expert in the field of contemporary music and opera. He has a long-established association with Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt and is First Guest Conductor of the Swedish Ensemble for New Music "KammarensembleN" in Stockholm.
Franck Ollu is a very versatile conductor and is widely acknowledged as an expert in the field of contemporary music and opera. He has a long-established association with Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt and is First Guest Conductor of the Swedish Ensemble for New Music "KammarensembleN" in Stockholm.
The coming saison 2016/17 will include concerts and perfomances at Biennale di Venezia, Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Frankfurt Oper with the Ensemble Modern, Xenakis Oresteia new production (Calixto Bieito) at the Basel Theater, George Benjamin Written on Skin in Moscow at the Bolshoi Opera House, Wolfgang Rihm’Jakok Lenz at the Deutsche Staats Oper Berlin.
The 2015/16 season include Tours to Mexico and Indonesia with the Ensemble Modern, the Brussels Philharmonic, Boston Conservatory orchestra, Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm.
The 2014/15 Much in demand as an opera conductor, last season included a New Production of Wolfgang Rihm’Jakok Lenz at the Stuttgart Oper and La Monnaie Brussels (Opernwelt Preis, Best production 2015) and the world Premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Penthesilea at La Monnaie, Brussels and Strasbourg Opera. It also included a Boulez’s portrait concert at the London Proms with BCMG and did his debut with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
The 2013/14 season include: The Rite of Spring with Sasha Waltz at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Le Marteau sans Maître at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen at the Opéra de Lille, the Frankfurter Radio Orchestra, Frank Martin's Le Vin Herbé at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Manfred’s Trojahn’ portrait concert at the Festival d’Aix en Provence.
The 2012/13 season sees several debuts: Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin with a new production of Frank Martin's Le Vin Herbé, and Netherlands Opera and Theatre Capitole de Toulouse for performances of George Benjamin's new creation Written on Skin. Long associated with the music of Heiner Goebbels, he gives six performances of Landschaft mit entfernen Verwanten with Ensemble Modern at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt.
Mr Ollu conducted the world premiere of George Benjamin's first opera Into the Little Hill at Opera de Bastille in 2006 with many subsequent performances with the London Sinfonietta at Aldeburgh Festival, The Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden, and with Ensemble Modern at Lincoln Centre in New York and major festivals in Amsterdam, Vienna, Dresden and Frankfurt. He has given many performances of Wolfgang Rihm’s Jagden und Formen including the Salzburg Festival with Ensemble Modern.
Other recent opera work includes the world premiere of Thanks to My Eyes, (2010) a new commission by Oscar Bianchi at the Festival Aix-en-Provence. It was with this production that he made his debut at La Monnaie, Brussels, Pascal Dusapin's Passion (2008), at the Festival Aix-en-Provence. The Rake’s Progress at Théâtre de l’Athénée, Paris, Xenakis’ The Oresteia and Dusapin's Medea at the Polish National Opera and several revivals of Dusapin’s Passion including Le Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Holland festival and Opera de Lille. Mr Ollu conducted a new opera by Helmut Oehring “Die Wunde Heine” which he toured with Ensemble Modern to leading European festivals including the Vienna Festwochen and Musik Triennale Köln.
Symphonic work includes Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Orquestra National de Espana, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra in their series Music of today, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester.
Leading contemporary Ensembles with whom he has worked include Finland’s Avanti, Australia’s Elision, Holland’s Asko, German’s Musikfabrik, English’s BCMG, Portuguese’s Remix, Austrian’s Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Muzik and Australia’s Elision.
Franck Ollu is a committed teacher and mentor and has ongoing relationships with London's Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie.
Franck Ollu was born in La Rochelle, France and studied music in Paris. He has been assistant conductor to Pierre Boulez and Jonathan Nott at the Ensemble Intercontemporain, 2000-2002. He also studied conducting with Peter Eötvös. He was between 2003 and 2011, the Musical director of the Swedish Ensemble KammarensembleN in Stockholm.
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Pelléas et Mélisande, Royal Opera Stockholm Även den franske dirigenten Franck Ollu är ytterst säker. Han ger oss en Debussy som är klar och kärv, inte den sortens vaga impressionism som är lös i hullet.
Am Pult steht diesmal im Großen Saal des RBB, der Franzose Franck Ollu, ein inspirierender Dirigent der Moderne aus der Schule von Boulez und Eötvös, auf den die Musiker sich verlassen können. Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Manoury, Zones de turbulences, « Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under the confident baton of Franck Ollu »
Frank Martin, Statts Oper Berlin, « vom französischen Experten für zeitgenössische Musik, Franck Ollu, mit Farbvielfalt spannungsvoll herausgearbeitet
Wolfgang Rihm Jakob Lenz « sous la direction imperturbablement zen de Franck Ollu. »
Dérive 2" (1988/2006) für 11 Instrumente, grandios gespielt vom Ensemble Modern unter der perfekten Leitung Franck Ollu Ensemble Modern
Benjamin, Into the Little Hill, Lincoln Center Festival «conducted grippingly by Franck Ollu»
Boulez, Le Marteau sans Maître, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Aurora Orchestra « The expert ensemble was conducted with exactitude by Franck Ollu ».
unter dem hoch konzentrierten Dirigat von Franck Ollu auf fast schlafwandlerische Weise vertraut mit diesem neuen und oft hochkomplexen und virtuosen Werk Pascal Dusapins
Jakob Lenz Stuttgart Oper. "Drastik, Präzision und Ausdruckswucht dieser Musik wirken noch heute unverbraucht. Das Werk ist eine der meistgespielten zeitgenössischen Opern überhaupt. Am Pult der Stuttgarter Staatsoper bringt Franck Ollu die zwischen höchster Hoffnung und Vernichtung zerrissenen Suggestionen kühn und schroff und frei von Sentimentalitäten zur Geltung, die Instrumentalisten des Staatsorchesters spielen wie unter Hochspannung".
Passion Festival d'Aix en Provence La partition est finement interprétée par le jeune chef français Franck Ollu, qui donne à son geste précision et musicalité