THE CHESAPEAKE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Julien Benichou
Julien Benichou, Music Director
Julien Benichou, Music Director of the Mid-Atlantic Symphony is also Music Director of the Chesapeake
Youth Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Benichou founded and directed the Montpellier Young Orchestral Ensemble in France. He has also been
Music director of several choral groups such as the Martigues Choir in Martigues, France.
Previously Maestro Benichou was an
assistant conductor with the Hopkins Symphony, the Columbia Orchestra, The Peabody Singers, The Baltimore Opera Company, The Skokie
Valley Symphony Orchestra, and associate conductor of the Hot Springs Music Festival in Arkansas. He was also the director of the
Pre-College Chamber orchestra at the Juilliard School. He is a regular guest conductor for Towson New Music at Towson University.
Beginning
his studies in the conservatories of Marseille, St Maur and Rueil-Malmaison as well as the Schola Cantorum in Paris, he continued
at Northwestern University, Yale University and the Peabody Conservatory receiving his graduate degree in conducting. His teachers
included Roland Hayrabedian, Jean-Sebastien Bereau, Pol Mule, Georges Boeuf and Pierre Doury in France.
During his studies in
the United States his primary teachers were Victor Yampolski, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Markand Thakar and Gustav Meier. Julien Benichou
has actively participated in Master classes with Yuri Temirkanov, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Marin Alsop, Kenneth Kiesler,
Jorma Panula and Larry Rachleff. He is the recipient of the Prix de la Sacem in Musical Analysis and has recorded world premiere of
Rudolf Haken's works for Centaur Records.
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