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.
