KLAUS MÄKELÄ: THE ART OF RADIANT CONDUCTING
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Originally trained as a cellist, and appointed music director of the Orchestre de Paris in 2021 at merely 25 year old, Klaus Mäkelä devotes his time, energy and passion to music with an intense, almost visceral commitment.
From a very young age, he dreamt of being able, in his own words, « to place his ears at the back of the hall for the pleasure of hearing how it sounds ». This desire became a vocation, and then a reality, with « a radiant energy that gives musicians extraordinary momentum » (Christian Merlin, France Musique).
In Stars du Classique on France Musique, Aurélie Moreau traces the meteoric rise of this young conductor — now regarded as one of the best of his generation — through the works of Sibelius, Shostakovich, Debussy, Stravinsky, Mahler, Berlioz and Ravel, which he conducts.
This summer, see him direct the Orchestre de Paris in Richard Strauss’s The Woman without a Shadow, staged by Barrie Kosky and in a concert version of Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard's Castle. Discover his daily work with the Orchestre de Paris in Nous l’Orchestre, a documentary by Philippe Béziat, being screened as part of the Aix en Juin cinema cycle.
