In May 2023, the French Republican Guard Orchestra recorded the soundtrack to Finalement, Claude Lelouch’s next film.
While you’ll have to wait until 13 November 2024 to see the film in cinemas, the music, composed by Ibrahim Maalouf, is already available in digital version!
The 2024-2025 Season begins under the banner of change for the French Republican Guard Orchestra, with conductor Bastien Stil taking over as musical and artistic director.
This is an exceptional event, as his predecessor, François Boulanger, had been conducting the ensemble for 28 years!
Following a competitive recruitment process, Bastien Stil becomes the tenth conductor of this orchestra, which was founded over one hundred and fifty years ago. He will conduct the various ensembles – wind band, symphony orchestra and string orchestra – when he performs in France and abroad.
A trained pianist, Bastien Stil is a laureate of the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris and of the First Bucharest International Conducting Competition. The conductor has worked with leading figures in the music world, at the crossroads of classical music, jazz, chanson and cinema.
He has conducted prestigious ensembles such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Ensemble InterContemporain. He is a regular guest with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Porto Symphony Orchestra and the National orchestras of Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Lille.
His musical background and open-mindedness are in line with the ambitions of the French Republican Guard Orchestra: to pursue its official missions in the service of the State and to disseminate a varied repertoire throughout the country.
“A word for the French Republican Guard Orchestra conducted by François Boulanger : bravo.”
The Strad
On Sunday November 26, the final of the Long-Thibaud international competition took place at the University Paris-Panthéon-Assas.
This year, the spotlight was on the violin.
Throughout the day, the five finalists – Bohdan Luts, Dayoon You, Koshiro Takeuchi, Vikram Francesco Sedona and Miyu Kitsuwa – selected from over a hundred candidates from all over the world, performed one after the other, accompanied by the Orchestra.
Audiences were treated to performances of violin concertos by Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Sibelius.
© Corentin – Schimel
The French Republican Guard Orchestra, under the direction of Colonel Sébastien Billard, has recorded Henri Tomasi’s pieces for violin and orchestra. You can listen to the orchestra play these works, with violinist Stéphanie Moraly. This recording is a world premiere: these pieces have never been recorded before.
The album has been released on the Naxos label, and is now available everywhere!
And if you’d like to hear a preview of what’s in store for you on this album, please click on “find out more”.
Presented a month before its release in the “Le Choix de France musique” selection, our recording Gloire Immortelle! has just been released on the Château de Versailles Spectacles label.
The French Republican Guard Orchestra and the French Army Choir are united under the direction of Hervé Niquet.
In this new recording, you can hear the String Orchestra of the French Republican Guard, conducted by Sébastien Billard, play compositions by Olivier Penard.
We’re delighted to take part in projects like this, which illustrate our commitment to contemporary creation.
The disc opens with Concert Argentin, performed by the Orchestra with clarinettist Jean-Marc Fessard and pianist Orlando Bass, two musicians with whom we had great pleasure playing.
Click here to discover the disc
With :
Violins
Guillaume Barli
Oriane Carcy
David Galoustov
Nicolas Gros
Pauline Lavacry
Arnaud Pieniezny
Guillaume Plays
Lucile Podor
Andrew Burgan
Julie Gehan
Caroline Lasfargues
Fabien Roussel
Élena Rubino
Altos
Lou Chang
Laurence Fremy
Véronique Vichery
Marylène Vinciguerra
Cellos
Sophie Chauvenet
Arthur Lamarre
Clotilde Marie
Frédéric Petit
Double basses
Renaud Bary
Philippe Blard
The Republican Guard Orchestra and the French Army Choir have the honor to offer you an exceptional concert on the theme of the Marseillaise. Besides its original version of Rouget de Lisle, you will hear many works, variations or evocations of the French anthem. The Orchestra and the Choir also accompany the singer Arthur H during this concert filmed at the Philharmonie de Paris.
From Tchaikovsky to the Beatles, via Bolling and Gainsbourg, discover or re-discover the Marseillaise as you have never heard it before!
You will be able to enjoy this concert, originally planned for a school audience, from April 1st, 2021. It will be available online for 6 months, on the Philharmonie Live platform (link on “find out more”).
Allons enfants … and above all, enjoy the concert!
(Pictures : Fabrice Bourdeau – Garde républicaine)
While waiting to give concerts again in front of an audience, the Orchestra and the Choir continue their activities!
Two auditions were held recently: the wind orchestra will soon welcome two new musicians, one as a saxophonist and the other as a clarinetist.
The two next auditions will take place in February (registrations are closed).
Check our application page regularly, new positions may be available soon!
If you want to listen to some music, here are two videos you should not miss:
Finally, on January 15th, the Choir performed Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 (known as Babi Yar) with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and the Radio France Choir.
If you missed the live stream of this concert, you can read a recap here
Many projects are underway, including concerts with organ (see here for more information) and concerts at the occasion of the bicentenary of Napoleon’s death in 2021.
Our concerts calendar is regularly updated, so stay tuned!
The Orchestra and the Choir ended 2019 with their great Christmas concert, organized by Radio Classique. During the three concerts that took place at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Orchestra, the Choir, but also the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine and the trumpet player Lucienne Renaudin-Vary interpreted great Christmas classic pieces.
Listen to the full version of the Radio Classique Christmas concert clicking on the link below :
Twelve musicians from the string orchestra and two singers from the French Army Choir are currently on the Reunion Island for a series of five concerts.
Meet with the conductor and the two singers to talk about this exceptional trip and the daily life of the orchestra (in French) :
