Guillemette Daboval
Conductor
Uncommon energy and rigour
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Project Choeur et orchestre des Jeunes - Auditorium de Poitiers - March 2023
Assistant conductor at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra Comique throughout the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 season, as part of the Favart Academy, Guillemette Daboval is also a leading choral conductor of the new generation.
Her presence at the Opéra Comique led her to work closely with Louis Langrée on the production of Ravel's L'heure espagnole directed by Guillaume Gallienne, and with Laurent Campellone on Thomas Jolly's production of Offenbach's Fantasio.
Musical director of the women's vocal ensemble Esquisses, which she founded in 2017, their first CD ("Par un matin") was released in September 2023 on the "evidence" label.
In 2024, she also founded the Datura company with the pianist Timothée Hudrisier, director Mathilde Bellin, choreographer Frank Gizycki and costume designer Carmen Espérou.
In 2021 she collaborated with the Eric Ericson Choir as a semi-finalist in the prestigious Eric Ericson International Competition in Stockholm and conducted the same year the "Choeur et Orchestre des Jeunes" project with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, at the Théâtre-Auditorium in Poitiers.
In 2022 she conducted Bizet's Carmen with the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and was also assistant conductor at the Berlin Opernfest for the production of Strauss's Die Fledermaus. Since that same year, she has been regularly invites with the Choeur de Radio France, of which she will be one of the guest conductors for the 2023/2024 season.
In March 2024, she collaborated for the first time with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris during the filming of the program Fauteuils d'Orchestre. She also made her debut with the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen during the summer metropolitan tour.
She works regularly with Mathieu Romano and the ensemble Aedes, made her debut with the Accentus choir on the radio drama Solaris directed by Christophe Hocké and broadcast by France Culture, and was assisting Quentin Hindley in a production of Mozart's The Magic Flute in 2019. This season, she is assisting Hervé Niquet at the Opéra de Versailles, for Carmen.
A student of Lionel Sow at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, she obtained her Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Musicien (DNSPM) in 2019, followed by her Master's degree and the Diplôme d'Etat d'Enseignement Artistique in 2022. She also studied singing and orchestral conducting, a discipline in which she has benefited from the teaching of Enrique Mazzola, Debora Waldman and Julien Masmondet.
Considering work with amateur ensembles to be an important part of her musical mission, she has also been Musical Director of the Cantrel de Lyon, as well as the Six Cinq Barré ensemble, since 2018.
For her 2024-2025 season : She will make her debuts with the Orchestre of the opéra de Tours and the Orchestre of the opéra de Toulon, and will be conducting Lakmé with Datura company.
Guillemette Daboval has been represented by the RSBA agency since 2023.