1. Marc Soustrot was born on 15 April 1949 and is a French classical conductor.
13 Facts About Marc Soustrot
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Marc Soustrot was the music director of the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire from 1976 to 1994, and from 1995 to 2003 GMD of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn which plays in both opera and concert.
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Marc Soustrot has worked at major opera houses in Europe and made several recordings, such as Leonore, Beethoven's first version of Fidelio, the piano concertos and symphonies by Camille Saint-Saens, Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bucher, and Penderecki's St Luke Passion.
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Marc Soustrot continued his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, in particular in piano, trombone, chamber music, and conducting.
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Marc Soustrot led the Brabants Orkest Eindhoven from 1996 to 2006.
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Marc Soustrot conducted at the Staatsoper Stuttgart Gounod's Faust, Bizet's Carmen, and Wagner's Siegfried and Gotterdammerung.
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Marc Soustrot conducted Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande at the Semperoper in Dresden, staged by Alex Olle of the company La Fura dels Baus.
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Marc Soustrot conducted in 2017 at the Oper Frankfurt a double bill of Debussy's cantata La Damoiselle elue and Honegger's dramatic oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bucher, again staged by Olle, and co-produced with the Teatro Real Madrid.
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Marc Soustrot is from a musical family; his younger brother is the trumpet-player Bernard Soustrot.
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In 2009 Marc Soustrot recorded Philippe Gaubert's Le Chevalier et la Damoiselle and other works with the Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg.
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Marc Soustrot recorded in 2015 Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bucher with the Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona.
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In 1974 Marc Soustrot won First Prize in the international competition of the Rupert Fondation de Londres, and in 1975 the First Prize of the Besancon International Music Festival.
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Marc Soustrot was awarded the title of a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 2008.