Quentin Hindley
Quentin Hindley is part of the rising generation of young French conductors, whose work is praised by many French and abroad orchestras. Recently, he has been invited by the Orchestre de Paris, recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra, collaborates regularly with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, and has been associate conductor of the Orchestre de Jeunes de la Méditerranée (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence) for eight seasons.
Education
Quadruple graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris (viola, musical analysis, orchestration and conducting), Quentin Hindley studied with the Hungarian conductor Zsolt Nagy. Between 2007 and 2012, he received first prizes for conducting, orchestration, analysis and viola, before perfecting his skills with Pierre Boulez, Paavo and Neeme Järvi, Susanna Mälkki, Paolo Arrivabeni, Jorma Panula and Michail Jurowski. After several years of experience as a violist with the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, where he deepened the lyrical repertoire with the greatest performers, Quentin Hindley decided to devote himself entirely to conducting.
In 2012, Quentin was appointed Resident Conductor of the Orchestre national de Lyon, alongside Leonard Slatkin. There he conducts, both at the Auditorium and at the Opéra de Lyon, performances noted by a particularly enthusiastic critic: "Precise gestures, fluid beat, left hand freed from a difficult metric and wide panorama of contrasts, all striking…" (Crescendo-Magazine).
In 2016, he became Sir Simon Rattle's assistant at the prestigious Aix-en-Provence festival for the premiere of Jonathan Dove's opera The Monster in the Maze (staging Marie-Ève Signeyrole) .
Background
His concern for detail and his ability to bring people together were seen during his engagements with the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre national de Lyon, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre Régional Avignon-Provence, Orchestre de Bretagne, Opéra de Nancy, Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, l’Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Ensemble Le Balcon etc…
Abroad, Quentin has notably been the guest conductof of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ljubljana Academy Orchestra, The Hungarian Symphonic Orchestra Miskolc, the Fribourg HEMU Orchestra, the Berlin Sinfonietta, the New Japan Philharmonic, and the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Czech Republic.
Repertoire
Quentin conducts all repertoires, symphonic of course, but also operatic and contemporary. He gave a recital of great operatic arias with soprano Pretty Yende and the Orchestre de Picardie in June 2017 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. He accompanies prestigious instrumentalist soloists such as Alexandre Tharaud, David Kadouch, Eric Le Sage, Alexandra Conunova, David Guerrier ..
Passionate about the music of his time, the young conductor multiplied his discussions with composers Tristan Murail, Bruno Mantovani, Camille Pépin, Hugues Dufourt, Thierry Escaich, Arthur Lavandier (La Légende du Roi Dragon, Les Noces, variations at the Opéra de Lille, with the Ensemble le Balcon), and Jonathan Dove (The Monster in the Maze, at the Lille Opera, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and the Philharmonie de Paris).
Most recently, he gave the world premiere of the opera Evariste Galois, or the Tragic Night by Fabien Barcelo with the Orchestre National Avignon Provence and the Choir of the Opéra Grand Avignon. His work has received critical acclaim: “Conductor Quentin Hindley is very attentive to his musicians. His discreet and accomplice direction exacerbates the obvious quality of the instrumentalists (Olyrix) ”.
Pedagogical, social and cross-cultural projects
Heavily involved in pedagogical projects, Quentin Hindley has conducted the Orchestre National de Lyon Academies for Youngs for three years.
He regularly conducts the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, he works with the conducting initiation class of the CNSMDP and with the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra for five seasons, in co-operation with the musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Passionate about opera, he participates in the creation of the Lyric Art Laboratory Pro'Scenio in Rhône-Alpes region (France). For its first event in 2017 he perfomes the Offenbach's La Belle Hélène (staging Quentin Gibelin).
From 2016 and for three seasons, he is also music director of the Orchestre du Grand-Paris-Sud for the DEMOS project under the umbrella of the Philharmonie de Paris.