Assistant conductors
The Ensemble intercontemporain is pleased to announce the appointment of three new assistant conductors who will join the Ensemble under the direction of Pierre Bleuse in January 2026, for two years.
Liubov Nosova
Liubov Nosova is a Russian conductor. Her rapidly rising career has led her to conduct some of Europe’s finest orchestras, including Geneva’s Orchestra de la Suisse Romande and Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra in Switzerland, the Berliner Symphoniker, Bochum Symphoniker, Neubrandenburg Philharmonie, Brandenburgisches and Staatsorchester Frankfurt in Germany, the Orchestra of Extremadura and Orchestra City of Lliria in Spain, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of Saint-Petersburg Conservatory, the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella and the Tolyatti Philharmonic in Russia, and the Orchestre National de France and Paris Mozart Orchestra in France.
The past seasons, Liubov Nosova served as Resident Conductor with the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and now works at the Novaya Opera in Moscou. In 2026, she will become an Assistant Conductor of Pierre Bleuse at the Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris.
Liubov Nosova began her musical journey at the age of 4, first as pianist and later as organist, studying at the famed Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, where she performed as a soloist with a symphony orchestra for the first time aged just 9 years old. At the age of 18 she was invited to conduct the symphony orchestra of the Conservatory. She later completed her orchestra conducting studies at the Zurich University of Arts and the Berlin University of Arts, under the guidance of maestros including Paavo Järvi, Daniele Gatti, Johannes Schlaefli, James Lowe, Vladimir Fedoseev, Rodolfo Fischer.
In 2021 Liubov Nosova was offered a place in Germany’s prestigious Forum Dirigiern by the German Music Council. She won the Second Prize at the 2021 International Conducting Competition in Llira (Spain) and in 2024 she won the Second Prize at the renowned La Maestra International Competition for Women Conductors at the Philharmonie in Paris. This led to numerous guest conducting invitations, and over the next few months she is looking forward to debuts and return engagements with the Landestheater Coburg, Philharmonic and Erzgebirgische Philharmonie in Germany, the Montpellier National Opera and Paris Mozart Orchestra in France, the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg State Academic Capella, Moscow’s Kolobov Novaya Operaa and Yekaterinburg’s Sverdlovsk State Academic Philharmonic in Russia, The Morocco Philharmonic Orchestra in Casablanca and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the United States.
Gabriel Durliat
Gabriel Durliat has carved out a distinctive path in the French musical landscape, evolving between piano, conducting, and composition. A winner of the Concours Général (1st Prize in Music History) in 2017, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris the same year, aged 16, where he studied under Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Thierry Escaich, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Guillaume Connesson.
There, he won First Prizes in piano, harmony, piano accompaniment, and orchestration —all unanimously awarded with the jury’s highest honors— as well as prizes in counterpoint and fugue. In 2022, he was admitted to the newly-created Artist Diploma program while continuing to refine his skills at the Jaroussky Academy. He is currently studying orchestral conducting in the class of Alain Altinoglu.
Gabriel Durliat was one of six musicians selected to study at the Malko International Academy for Young Conductors in Copenhagen, organized by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Within this program, he received guidance from leading conductors such as Fabio Luisi, Herbert Blomstedt and Johannes Schlaefli. In 2023, he served as assistant conductor of the Ensemble intercontemporain for a production of Gérard Grisey’s Les Espaces Acoustiques at the Philharmonie de Paris, before becoming Assistant Conductor of Pierre Bleuse with the Ensemble in 2026.
The first French pianist to win the Piano Campus International Competition in February 2022, Gabriel Durliat went on to win the Second Prize at the Hans von Bülow International Conducting from the Piano Competition in Meiningen (Germany) in May 2023—a rare competition devoted to conducting from the piano.
He performs regularly as a soloist, with orchestra and in chamber music, and has been invited to renowned festivals such as the La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, La Folle Journée de Nantes, the Radio France Montpellier Festival, the Auvers-sur-Oise Festival, and the Deauville Festival, among others. His debut solo recording, pairing the music of Bach and Fauré, released in 2024 on the Scala Music label, was warmly received by critics. A laureate of the Banque Populaire Foundation, Gabriel Durliat is currently an artist in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation.
Polina Lebedieva
Polina Lebedieva is a Ukrainian conductor, who as rapidly gained international recognition.In 2022, she opened the Bachfest Leipzig with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and participated in a BBC Digital recording for UNICEF. The same year, she was selected as one of five conductors to join the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy, where she conducted Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna.
In 2023, Polina was a semi-finalist (Top 5) in the prestigious Mahler Competition in Bamberg and was named a Britten Pears Young Artist for the 2023–2024 season. She took part in The Conductor as Dramaturg program, organized by the Royal Opera House and Britten Pears Young Artist Program in Snape Maltings. The following year, she reached the semi-finals of the International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam.
Since 2023, Polina Lebedieva has been an Askonas Holt Conducting Fellow. She was also a finalist for the Prix Fabuleuse Signature, an award celebrating women artists of foreign origin in France. Her recent engagements include appearances in the festival Les Étoiles du Classique in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and her work as assistant conductor for Madame Butterfly at the Covent Garden Opera Festival in London. In 2024, she made her debut with the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and was immediately re-invited for the following season. In August 2025, she took part in the prestigious Gstaad Conducting Academy in Switzerland, held within the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, and conducted the season opening concert of the Orchestre du Pays Basque. In 2026, she will become an Assistant Conductor of Pierre Bleuse with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the Philharmonie de Paris.
As an assistant conductor, Polina has worked closely with distinguished conductors such as Oksana Lyniv, Benjamin Levy, Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Duncan Ward. Polina has collaborated with numerous ensembles across Europe, including the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Orchestre Régional de Normandie, London City Philharmonic, Ensemble Zar, Chamber Orchestra Ars Nova, the Queens Orchestra, among others.
She is currently pursuing advanced conducting studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris under the guidance of Alain Altinoglu. She previously graduated from the conducting faculty of the Ukrainian National Academy of Music.
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