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Paul Meyer

General Management (conducting)

One of the world’s leading clarinettists, Paul Meyer is also a well-established orchestral conductor with over twenty years’ experience. Having studied with Charles Bruck and John Carewe, he went on to assist leading conductors such as Marek Janowski, Emmanuel Krivine and Myung-Whun Chung, the latter appointing him associate conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic in 2007. In 2009, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, where he explored contemporary repertoire and toured throughout Japan and abroad. He has conducted numerous symphony orchestras around the world including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonic, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Danish Symphony, Bilbao Symphony, Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota, Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. Recent engagements include concerts with the Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra and a highly successful tour with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
 
In 2019 he became Chief Conductor of the Mannheim Chamber Orchestra, where his programmes present Mozart’s work alongside his contemporaries and repertoire from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chamber orchestras he has conducted include the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Munich Chamber Orchestra. 
 
His extensive discography includes over 50 works with major labels such as DGG, Sony, RCA, EMI, Virgin, Alpha and Aeon, which have won numerous awards. In his latest release, he conducts Mozart piano concertos with pianist Sélim Mazari and the Mannheim Chamber Orchestra. 
 
He also has considerable experience of both playing and directing from the clarinet. Examples of his recordings include the four clarinet concertos of Louis Spohr with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and a recording of double clarinet concertos with Michel Portal and the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.   
 
In 2012 Paul Meyer was awarded France’s highest cultural honour, the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, for his contribution to the arts in France and throughout the world. 

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“Paul Meyer is a figure of rare grace and relaxed elegance in classical music. It shows in the way he walks on stage. It shows in the unforced, stylish way he conducts. And it showed in the way the Scottish Chamber Orchestra played for him on Friday night throughout a program that developed into an enthralling musical experience.” - Herald Tribune

“Performed like chamber music, with such fine gradations in dynamics and tempo, so far removed from the usual way of playing...” - Das Orchester, reviewing the Elgar Cello Concerto on Cello Abbey

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Discography

Recordings include: 

Album cover for Mozart piano concertos

MOZART

Piano Concertos nos. 12 & 14; Rondo K.382

Sélim Mazari, piano

Mannheim Chamber Orchestra

Paul Meyer, conductor

Mirare, 2022

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Album cover for Weber Clarinet Concertos

WEBER

Clarinet Concertos

Paul Meyer, clarinet and conductor

Orchestre Chambre de Lausanne

MDG, 2016

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Album cover for Tango recording

TANGO

Pascal Contet, accordion

Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia

Paul Meyer, conductor

Aparte, 2021

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Album cover for Bolero de Meyer

SAINT-SAENS, SCMITT, MILHAUD, DUKAS & RAVEL

Arrangements for wind orchestra

Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra

Paul Meyer, conductor

Denon, 2013

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Album cover for double clarinet concertos recording with Michel Portal

STAMITZ, TELEMANN, TCHAIKOVSKY, MENDELSSOHN, CPE BACH

Concertos for two clarinets

Michel Portal, clarinet

Paul Meyer, clarinet and conductor

Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia

Alpha, 2020

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Album cover for Louis Spohr clarinet concertos

LOUIS SPOHR

4 Clarinet Concertos

Paul Meyer, clarinet and conductor

Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne

Alpha, 2012

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Album cover for Cello Abbey recording

WALTON, BOYLE & ELGAR

Cello Concertos

Nadege Rochat, cello

Staatskapelle Weimar

Paul Meyer, conductor

Ars Produktion Schumacher, 2017

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Album cover for John Corigliano and Elliott Carter recording

CORIGLIANO / CARTER

Clarinet Concertos

Eddy Vanoosthuyse, clarinet

Brussels Philharmonic

Paul Meyer, conductor

Aeon, 2012

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Selected video recordings
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