Festival de Lanaudière | Renaud Loranger Explains The Program

Interview by Alain Brunet
Genres and styles : classique

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In addition to his role as Artistic Director of the Festival international de Landaudière, Canada’s most important classical music festival, Renaud Loranger is Vice-President of Artists and Repertoire for the European label Pentatone, where he oversees the recruitment and recording development of the world’s leading classical musicians, including maestros Vladimir Jurowski, René Jacobs and Esa-Pekka Salonen, singers Piotr Beczala, Lisette Oropesa, Javier Camarena and Magdalena Kožená, pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Francesco Piemontesi, to name but a few. Since November 2018, Renaud Loranger has been Artistic Director of Lanaudière, in Joliette, his hometown where he has spent every summer since. A musicologist and art historian, he’s among the most experienced and refined professionals to carry out such missions. Listen in as he expresses his passion for his new Lanaudière programming and shares some of his top picks! Alain Brunet conducted this interview for PAN M 360.

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