Margue
Conductor, pianist, and saxophonist Léo Margue was nominated in 2024 in the "Revelation, Conductor" category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. He began his career as an assistant conductor with three French orchestras: the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre de Picardie, and the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France.
Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in Alain Altinoglu’s class, which he joined in 2013, he later served as assistant conductor to Matthias Pintscher at the Ensemble Intercontemporain from 2019 to 2021. During this time, he became particularly active in contemporary music creation with the LIKΣN project, which he co-founded alongside composer and improviser Timothée Quost.
He has worked as an assistant conductor on several productions at the Opéra National de Paris and has also been a guest conductor with the Orchestre Symphonique de l’Opéra de Toulon, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Orchestre National Avignon-Provence, and the Orchestre du Pays Basque. He has collaborated with soloists such as Bertrand Chamayou, Francesco Tristano, Marie Oppert, and Aurélien Gignoux.
In 2022, Léo Margue took over the artistic direction of Ensemble 2e2m, ensuring both its historical continuity and its drive for innovation, with the goal of making artistic creation central to the expectations of audiences today and in the future.