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Thierry Fischer

Innovator of this project and artistic director of The Frank Martin Odyssey, Thierry Fischer invites the general public to share in an exceptional cultural and musical heritage with which he is intimately familiar and which he has continuously revived and promoted.

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The Frank Martin Odyssey was born in the heart and mind of Thierry Fischer. The internationally renowned conductor from Geneva is passionate about Frank Martin’s work, with which he is intimately familiar. For years, he has actively contributed to the promotion of Martin’s body of work both in Switzerland and abroad.

Thierry Fischer conducts orchestras around the world. Today, he is the artistic and musical director of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP) in Brazil. As of the summer of 2022, he is also the musical director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León (OSCyL) in Spain. In addition, he has just concluded a fourteen-year tenure as the musical director of the Utah Symphony in the United States.

Born in Zambia, he grew up in Geneva and studied flute at the Geneva Conservatory before becoming Principal Flute with the Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters in Hamburg and the Opernhaus in Zurich, and later with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE).

In 1992, Thierry Fischer founded the Geneva Chamber Orchestra (Orchestre de Chambre de Genève), which he directed until 1997. He subsequently headed up the ballet orchestra of the De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, before being appointed principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra and later the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Fischer went on to become the first guest conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic, before being appointed chief conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic.

Thierry Fischer has conducted and recorded numerous works by Frank Martin with, amongst others, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra (OCG), the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) and the Filharmonisch Orkest in Hilversum (the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra). For him, “the beauty of Frank Martin’s work can awaken the spirit of Geneva and make it resonate throughout our city” on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death.

Thierry Fischer on the music of Frank Martin (60 seconds)

Thierry Fischer on the music of Frank Martin (full interview)

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Georgijs Osokins

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Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins has gained international attention through his participation at age of 19 in the XVIIth International Chopin Piano Competition where he quickly became an absolute Audience Favorite. Shortly after the Chopin Competition, Osokins made important debuts at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Laeiszhalle and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, International Piano Series in Bern, Lockenhaus Festival, Gstaad Music Festival, Narodowe Forum Muzyki in Katowice, the Vancouver Playhouse, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Hall, Tongyeong Hall in South Korea. In 2021 Georgijs Osokins performed at the 101st Salzburger Festspiele.

Georgijs is actively collaborating with Gidon Kremer, touring in the UK, Ireland, Russia, Poland, Germany, Asia and US. Alongside Lucas Debargue, Georgijs Osokins was announced the first permanent Guest Artist of Kremerata Baltica in its 25-year history. In 2024 Georgijs makes his solo debut at Pierre-Boulez Saal in Berlin and returns to Milan’s Serate Musicali Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall.

UK’s label “Piano Classics” released Osokins’ two CD albums focused on Chopin’s Late Works and works of Rachmaninoff. These recordings received brilliant reviews from important British, Canadian, German, Danish and French music magazines. German label Accentus has released the first chamber music album of Georgijs Osokins alongside Gidon Kremer containing trios of Chopin and Beethoven – this CD was nominated for both International Classical Music Awards 2020 and Opus Klassik 2021. He received the Cross of Merit awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland and the Latvian Grand Music Award – highest honour in music in Latvia – and remains youngest recipient in the Awards’ history.