Gregory Charette
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| Biography | Gregory Charette (*1987) is a Los Angeles-based conductor and programmer dedicated to the performance and promotion of contemporary music. He is currently the musical director of the Oerknal Ensemble. He studied with Pierre Boulez at the 2011 Lucerne Festival and has served as conductor for the Holland Festival's John Cage Centennial and the Aldeburgh Festival's Emerging Composers Program, working closely with Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews. He made his debut with the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble in the opening concert of the 2012 Gaudeamus Festival and was conductor of the Orkest de Ereprijs (Netherlands) in the 2021/22 season. Charette first studied composition with Lewis Nielson at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Ohio), where he also participated in master classes with Helmut Lachenmann, David Lang and Rebecca Saunders. He then moved to the Netherlands to study orchestral conducting at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He had the opportunity to work with Jac van Steen, Kenneth Montgomery and various professional Dutch orchestras as part of the Dutch National Masters in Orchestral Conducting. |
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