Music Director – Pierre Bleuse

Pierre Bleuse has built his career at the intersection of musical excellence and artistic curiosity. Trained as a violinist, he discovered early on in conducting a space for dialogue and for bringing musicians together in a shared artistic endeavour.
He studied conducting with Jorma Panula in Finland and Laurent Gay at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, developing an approach that is committed, precise and deeply attentive to the musicians with whom he works.
Within just a few years, Pierre Bleuse established himself on the international stage and has been invited to conduct many of the world’s leading orchestras across Europe, Asia and the Americas, from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the London Philharmonic Orchestra to the Orchestre National de France, as well as the symphony orchestras of Tokyo, Singapore and São Paulo, alongside major German and Scandinavian radio orchestras.
These collaborations reveal a conductor equally at home in a wide variety of artistic contexts, guided throughout by the same commitment to clarity and a shared musical experience.
Appointed Music Director of the Ensemble intercontemporain in 2023, he has found in this outstanding ensemble an ideal setting in which to deepen his commitment to new music and the music of our time. Closely engaged with contemporary repertoire, he has led the Ensemble in numerous artistic and recording projects, including an album devoted to György Ligeti, which received both a Choc Classica and a Diapason d’Or de l’Année in 2024, and, more recently, an album dedicated to Korean composer Unsuk Chin, released in February 2025.
Alongside these activities, Pierre Bleuse continues to develop long-term artistic relationships. He is Music Director of the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark and Artistic Director of the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, where he champions an open-minded yet rigorous vision of music, with particular attention to the connections between works, performers and audiences.
At the helm of the Ensemble intercontemporain, Pierre Bleuse thus builds on a rich artistic legacy while pursuing a dynamic vision firmly focused on the future.