Ludovic Morlot  is quickly establishing a reputation as one of the leading conductors of his generation.  In the summer of 2007 alone, he had re-engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony, and made debuts with the Houston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.  Highlights of the 2007-08 season include debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (in subscription), Deutsches Symphonie Orchester (Berlin), the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Moscow National Philharmonic, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony and the Dallas Symphony, among others.  He will also return to the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. 

Trained as a violinist, Mr. Morlot studied conducting as a pupil of the late Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux School in Hancock, Maine. He furthered his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Sir Colin Davis, and then at the Royal College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar Conducting Fellowship. From 2004-2006 he served as assistant conductor to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and James Levine.  

Ludovic Morlot is quickly establishing a reputation as one of the leading conductors of his generation.  In the summer of 2007 alone, he had re-engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony, and made debuts with the Houston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.  In the 2006-7 season he also returned to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Intercontemporain (EIC) in Paris and led the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) for the first time. Mr. Morlot has collaborated with a number of eminent soloists, including Christian Tetzlaff, Gil Shaham, Lynn Harrell, Frank Peter Zimmerman, Emanuel Ax and Jessye Norman, among others.

Highlights of the 2007-08 season include debuts with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester (Berlin), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (in subscription), the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Moscow National Philharmonic, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony and the Dallas Symphony, among others.  He will also return to the EIC, the CBSO and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.  Mr. Morlot is also highly regarded in the Far East, where he has returned to conduct the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan and will make his debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in the coming season. 

Ludovic Morlot has maintained a close working relationship with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2001, when he was the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship Conductor at the Tanglewood Music Center.  2006-07 marked his third and final season as assistant conductor for the orchestra and their Music Director James Levine, a position that has enabled him to conduct a number of high-profile performances in Boston and at Tanglewood.  As conductor in residence of the Orchestre National de Lyon from 2002 to 2004, he assisted the Paris production of Schoenberg's Erwartung and Poulenc's La Voix Humaine with Jessye Norman.

Trained as a violinist, Mr. Morlot studied conducting as a pupil of the late Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux School in Hancock, Maine. He furthered his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Sir Colin Davis, and then at the Royal College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar Conducting Fellowship.