Louis Langrée

Conductor Louis Langrée is one of a comparatively small number of musicians from France to have held high-profile posts in the U.S. In 1989, Langrée was named assistant conductor of the Orchestre de Paris. In the '90s and 2000s, he worked in both opera and orchestra houses. His recording career began with the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon, backing soprano Véronique Gens on a 2001 recording of Berlioz's Les nuits d'été. Langrée was named director of New York's Mostly Mozart Festival in 2002; he held that post until 2020. In 2012, he was hired as the 13th music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He remained in that post as of the mid-2020s. In 2023, he returned to the recording studio, leading the Orchestre National de France in a recording of piano-and-orchestra music by Ravel with pianist Alexandre Tharaud.