Gallois, Patrick

Patrick Gallois is a renown French flutist and conductor who began his flute studies at the age of 17 with Jean-Pierre Rampal at the Paris Conservatoire.  Four years later he was appointed principal flute in the Orchestre National de France under Lorin Maazel.  
In 1984 he left the orchestra to pursue solo career during which he played with major orchestras around the world and conductors like Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Karl Böhm, Eugen Jochum and Sergiu Celibidache. He successfully established his own orchestra the Académie de Paris as well as conducting career. From 2003 to 2012 Patrick Gallois was a musical director of the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä and toured regularly with the orchestra. Patrick Gallois has made more than 75 recordings, mostly for Deutsche Grammophon and Naxos labels.
Since 1999 he teaches flute at annual summer masterclasses of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy.