Jean-Yves Ossonce enjoys an international career and has, over the past few years, been invited by some of the most prestigious opera companies and orchestras in the world: Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Edinburgh Festival, Orchestre National de Belgique, Slovak Philharmonic, Berlin Deutsche Oper, Hamburg Staatsoper, Holland Sinfonia, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Trieste Teatro Verdi, Capitole de Toulouse, Leipzig Radio Orchestra, Opéra de Lausanne, Angers-Nantes Opéra, Opéra National de Montpellier, Opéra d'Avignon, Orchestre de la Monnaie de Bruxelles (concert with Natalie Dessay).

Maestro Ossonce conducts a wide range of lyric and symphonic works combining well-known repertoire with lesser known works from composers such as Frank Martin and Ambroise Thomas.

Recently he was invited by l'Opéra de Montréal in their production of Roméo et Juliette, Minnesota Opera in Faust, San Francisco Opera in a production of Lucia di Lammermoor with Natalie Dessay. He also conducted the World Premiere of Gerard Pesson's Pastorale at the Theatre du Chatelet and Chabrier's L'Etoile in Grand Theatre de Geneve. His contribution as music director of l'Opéra and l'Orchestre Symphonique Région Centre-Tours was rewarded with the prestigous Claude Rostand prize, granted by the "Professional Union of critics" for the new production of "Le Pays" by J-G Ropartz and with the "'Orphée d'or 2009" of the best recording of a French work for "Le coeur du Moulin" from de Déodat de Séverac.

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