Bruno Ferrandis
Conductor Bruno Ferrandis (1960) began his tenure as music director and conductor of the Santa Rosa Symphony from 2006 until 2018. Born in Algiers and raised in Nice (France) Ferrandis currently resides with his family in Paris. He has conducted all over the world, and his breadth of musical experience includes not only symphony and opera, but also ballet, musical theater and cinema-accompanying music. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, he received a master’s degree in conducting from The Juilliard School. He was conductor of the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and Juilliard Opera Center. He also co-founded the new music ensemble Music Mobile in New York City. Ferrandis has recorded three CDs with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.In 2017 he conducted four concerts at Ostrava Days festival and later that year conducted Rigoletto at the Opera de Tours. His preparation and direction of the world premiere (!) of Alois Hába’s sixth-tone opera Thy Kingdom Come (1937–1942) within NODO (New Opera Days Ostrava) festival 2018 can be regarded as an almost heroic act. Ferrandis has worked closely with the following contemporary composers: in America with Jacob Druckman, and William Schuman; in Canada with Randolph Peters and Harry Somers; in Europe with Mauricio Kagel and his music theater (Warsaw Autumn festival), along with Claude Ballif, Pascal Dusapin, Ahmed Essyad, Yves Prin, and celebrated composers Luciano Berio and Pierre Boulez. Bruno Ferrandis is one of the closest artistic collaborators of the Ostrava New Music Centre.
