conductor
Raphaël Pichon
Raphaël Pichon studied singing, violin and piano at the Paris conservatoires. As a young countertenor he sang under the direction of Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, and Geoffroy Jourdain.
In 2006 he founded Pygmalion, a choir and a period-instrument orchestra which quickly distinguished itself by the singularity of its projects, including Bach's Missae Breves, the late versions of Rameau's tragédies lyriques, Mozart's rarities and the exploration of the Romantic repertoire. With Pygmalion, Pichon has performed at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Château de Versailles, the BBC Proms, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Kölner Philharmonie, and the Beijing Music Festival.
On the opera stage, he has conducted various productions at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, the Festival lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, and the Opéra national de Bordeaux. Among his most relevant projects of these last years, we find the rediscovery of Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, and the ambitious production of Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Virgine in collaboration with Pierre Audi for Dutch National Opera at the 2017 Holland Festival.
As a guest conductor, Pichon made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2018 with the Mozarteum Orchestra, at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Deutsches Symfonie-Orchester. In 2021, he made his Boston debut and became one of their recurring guest conductors for the coming seasons.
His many recordings, including those of Bach's Motets and St Matthew Passion, a Bach-and-Handel album with Sabine Devieilhe and Mein Traum, a programme of lyrical works by Schubert, Weber and Schumann with Stéphane Degout, are widely acclaimed.
In october 2024, Pichon won an Edison Klassiek for his Monteverdi album Vespro della Beata Vergine, six weeks before he returned to Dutch National Opera to perform the pastiche opera Le lacrime di Eros with Pygmalion. In April 2025, Pichon and his ensemble will perform Bach’s St Johns Passion at The Concertgebouw. In the 2025/2026 season Raphaël Pichon will make his first appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Raphaël Pichon studied singing, violin and piano at the Paris conservatoires. As a young countertenor he sang under the direction of Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, and Geoffroy Jourdain.
In 2006 he founded Pygmalion, a choir and a period-instrument orchestra which quickly distinguished itself by the singularity of its projects, including Bach's Missae Breves, the late versions of Rameau's tragédies lyriques, Mozart's rarities and the exploration of the Romantic repertoire. With Pygmalion, Pichon has performed at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Château de Versailles, the BBC Proms, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Kölner Philharmonie, and the Beijing Music Festival.
On the opera stage, he has conducted various productions at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, the Festival lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, and the Opéra national de Bordeaux. Among his most relevant projects of these last years, we find the rediscovery of Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, and the ambitious production of Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Virgine in collaboration with Pierre Audi for Dutch National Opera at the 2017 Holland Festival.
As a guest conductor, Pichon made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2018 with the Mozarteum Orchestra, at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Deutsches Symfonie-Orchester. In 2021, he made his Boston debut and became one of their recurring guest conductors for the coming seasons.
His many recordings, including those of Bach's Motets and St Matthew Passion, a Bach-and-Handel album with Sabine Devieilhe and Mein Traum, a programme of lyrical works by Schubert, Weber and Schumann with Stéphane Degout, are widely acclaimed.
In october 2024, Pichon won an Edison Klassiek for his Monteverdi album Vespro della Beata Vergine, six weeks before he returned to Dutch National Opera to perform the pastiche opera Le lacrime di Eros with Pygmalion. In April 2025, Pichon and his ensemble will perform Bach’s St Johns Passion at The Concertgebouw. In the 2025/2026 season Raphaël Pichon will make his first appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Raphaël Pichon studied singing, violin and piano at the Paris conservatoires. As a young countertenor he sang under the direction of Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, and Geoffroy Jourdain.
In 2006 he founded Pygmalion, a choir and a period-instrument orchestra which quickly distinguished itself by the singularity of its projects, including Bach's Missae Breves, the late versions of Rameau's tragédies lyriques, Mozart's rarities and the exploration of the Romantic repertoire. With Pygmalion, Pichon has performed at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Château de Versailles, the BBC Proms, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Kölner Philharmonie, and the Beijing Music Festival.
On the opera stage, he has conducted various productions at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, the Festival lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, and the Opéra national de Bordeaux. Among his most relevant projects of these last years, we find the rediscovery of Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo, and the ambitious production of Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Virgine in collaboration with Pierre Audi for Dutch National Opera at the 2017 Holland Festival.
As a guest conductor, Pichon made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2018 with the Mozarteum Orchestra, at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Deutsches Symfonie-Orchester. In 2021, he made his Boston debut and became one of their recurring guest conductors for the coming seasons.
His many recordings, including those of Bach's Motets and St Matthew Passion, a Bach-and-Handel album with Sabine Devieilhe and Mein Traum, a programme of lyrical works by Schubert, Weber and Schumann with Stéphane Degout, are widely acclaimed.
In october 2024, Pichon won an Edison Klassiek for his Monteverdi album Vespro della Beata Vergine, six weeks before he returned to Dutch National Opera to perform the pastiche opera Le lacrime di Eros with Pygmalion. In April 2025, Pichon and his ensemble will perform Bach’s St Johns Passion at The Concertgebouw. In the 2025/2026 season Raphaël Pichon will make his first appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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Raphaël Pichon - photo: Camera Lucida Productions -
Rafael Pichon - image: Milagro Elstak
