Franck Villard

Born in 1966, Franck Villard studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Orchestration, Piano accompaniment and Conducting).

Attracted by the operatic repertoire, he started his professional activity as a vocal coach, and then turned towards conducting.
He had the opportunity to lead numerous concerts and operatic works in France and abroad, including the Opéra national du Rhin, Opera Saint-Etienne, Opera Metz, at the Corum in Montpellier, at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, in the Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Chorégies d’Orange …
There was at the head of several French and foreign orchestras such as the National du Capitole de Toulouse Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon Provence, Orchestra Mulhouse Symphony, the Symphony Orchestra and Opera of Nancy, the Lorraine National Orchestra, the New Orchestra of Saint-Etienne, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Opéra de Toulon, the Orchestre de Bretagne the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Mikhaïlowski Theatre Orchestra of St. Petersburg, the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo, the Orchestra of the Region of Valencia …
In 2002, Franck Villard works at the Zurich Opera; it was in this house that he met Michel Plasson, where he became the assistant to the National du Capitole de Toulouse Orchestra. Since that time, he pursued a regular collaboration with M. Plasson, particularly at the Strasbourg Opera, Opéra de Nice, the Chorégies d’Orange, in the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Teatro Massimo of Palermo, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Megaron in Athens, at the Grand Theatre of Geneva, Paris Opera …
At the Paris Opera, he also assists chefs such as Marco Armiliato Tomas Netopil, Mikhail Jurowsky, Claus-Peter Flor, Michael Schonwandt …
Parallel to the conducting, Franck Villard develops a piano accompanist activity, particularly in the area of ​​French song.
Also a composer, Franck Villard is the author of “Nine Répons Dark Holy Thursday” and “Christus factus est” for chorus a cappella, “Quasi una Fantasia” for organ, “Ariadne Theseo” (dramatic monologue for mezzo-soprano and piano from Ovid), “L’Enfant et la Nuit” (lyrical tale libretto Olivier Balazuc) and numerous transcriptions and orchestrations.