Paul Drouet

18 and 24 October 2026 – Conducting the revival of My Fair Lady at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, Germany, as guest conductor.

3 to 9 December 2026 – assisting Marie Jacquot at the Staatskapelle Berlin, Bartok concerto for viola with Antoine Tamestit, Moussorgsky Picture at an exhibition and Night on bold Mountain.

13 December 2026 – Liederabend with german Soprano Carina Schmieger in Karlsruhe am Schlosshotel, Liszt, Brahms, Strauss, Wolf. info

20 April 2027 – Solo piano recital in Arcachon, « off » from Festival de musique de chambre d’Arcachon for the festival’s sponsors. Liszt, Opera transcriptions from Wagner, Verdi and Strauss.

15 to 19 May 2027 – Assisting Marie Jacquot at the Orchestre de Paris, Poulenc Les Animeaux modèles, Strauss Rosenkavalier-suite.

Since september 2026, Paul Drouet is repetiteur with conducting duties at the Landestheater Linz (Austria), where he performs regularly as a pianist and conductor.

Before this, he has been working three seasons at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau (Germany) where he was also musical director of the Laurentius Kammerorchester. He performed there regularly as a conductor, pianist, chamber musician.

Since 2024, he also assists the french conductor Marie Jacquot, with the Orchestre National de France, WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.

Alongside his piano studies in Versailles and at the CNSM of Paris, Paul starts conducting youth orchestras at a relative young age. He takes his first lessons at the CNSM, and studies later under the guidance of Adrian McDonnel at the Schola Cantorum Paris. In 2019 he is engaged as assistant conductor in the Palais Royal orchestra with Jean-Philippe Sarcos. He decides to move to Germany to continue his studies in Master of Conducting with Prof. Scott Sandmeier at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He works there as a Repetiteur with conducting duties at the Freiburg Theater from October 2021 to Februar 2022. He finishes his studies in Vienna, in Postgraduate at the MDW Vienna with Simeon Pironkoff and Andreas Henning.

earlier piano studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de danse de Paris

After studies at the Conservatoire de Versailles with Edda Erlendsdottir, he was admitted at the age of 19 to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in the piano class of Denis Pascal, Laurent Cabasso, Varduhi Yeritsyan and Sébastien Vichard. He obtained his Master’s under the guidance of Hortense Cartier-Bresson and Fernando Rossano, and participated in masterclasses for world famous pianists including Dominique Merlet, Jacque Rouvier, Pascal Devoyon, Bertrand Chamayou, Jean-Claude Pennetier and Benedetto Lupo.

Interested in historically informed performance, he is laureate of the fondation Royaumont where he studies Pianoforte with Malcolm Bilson, Alexei Lubimov, and particulary in the repertoire of Chopin with Eduardo Torbianelli.

Passionate about french Music, he is also laureate of l’Académie de Musique Française at the Ecole Normale in 2016, where he works on the french impressionist repertoire with Jean-Claude Pennetier, Bruno Rigutto, Jean-Philippe Collard and Anne-Queffélec.

In 2013, Paul was a semi-finalist in the 1st edition of the the “Virtuose du coeur” competition, presided over by Anne Queffélec. The same year, he was awarded 3rd prize in the Thomas Kuti competition in Metz. In 2017 he was awarded 1st medal at the Chopin piano competition in Brest, and got noticed at the Epinal international piano competition. He is now invited to perform as a soloist or chamber musician in several festivals in France, Europe and Asia : Les Pianissimes (Paris), Jeunes Talents (Paris), Les nuits romantiques (Aix les Bains), Alto en Bearn (Navarrenx)…

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