Pascal Rophé

Pascal Rophé is a conductor known for his interpretations of contemporary French works, several of whose world premieres he has led. He has served as music director for several major regional orchestras in France and Belgium. Rophé was born on June 16, 1960, in Paris. He studied the flute as a youth and was quite a prodigy, enrolling at the Paris Conservatory for studies on that instrument around 1974. Rophé switched to conducting at the Conservatory and scored a breakthrough in 1988 when he took second prize at a young conductors' competition at the Besançon International Mu...