Antoine Marguier, ©robnijpels

“The revelation of my passion for music came to me as a child, when I played in my village band.
My 18 year experience, during which I combined parallel careers in conducting, teaching and performing as an orchestral musician, has been rich and varied, and through it I have been able to expand my aptitudes to cover the full spectrum of those I wished to master.
Thanks to my excellent knowledge of orchestras, I am instantly able to capture the nature and needs of each one, enabling me to go straight to what is essential in assessing how best to use rehearsal time for optimum results.
I can’t resist the pleasure rising to a challenge, and enjoy using my resources and skills in the most complex and demanding situations.
I am intuitive and lively, and have often been described as charismatic.
My vision of a concert is that it can’t exist without the magic or the emotion which I am fortunate enough to elicit during performances.
I have experienced no greater pleasure than being able to transmit the beauty and richness of music and witnessing the emotional response of my audiences.
My responsibility towards music, however, is not limited to musicians or particular audiences, it transcends everything, including class barriers. What means so much too me, should be accessible to all and I am determined to do everything I can so that it is.
I wish to dedicate the rest of my life to my work and career as a conductor and pedagogue.”

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Antoine Marguier is currently Resident Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon, where he was appointed in 2010 after an international search.
A French National, Marguier started his career as solo clarinet under Claudio Abbado, and then served as a member of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for 17 years, where he was appointed by Armin Jordan. In 2006 he conducted the opening of a memorial concert as a homage to Jordan at the Grand Theatre in Geneva.

A semi-finalist of the Besançon International Conducting Competition in 2001, he studied with David Zinman, James Levine, Kurt Masur, and Roberto Benzi, and was an assistant to Jesus Lopez-Cobos with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes. Marguier is a frequent
guest conductor in France and other countries, with such ensembles as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Marseille, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Tokyo Niiza Symphony Orchestra and Durban Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam Asko-Schoenberg Ensemble, and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. He appears regularly with the Sinfonietta de Lausanne, recently leading that orchestra in a tour of China.

Recent invitations include the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Limburgs Symfonie Orkest in Maastricht, and the Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris. Since 2008, Antoine Marguier has been the Music Director of CMgo (Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique de Genève), as well as the United Nations Orchestra, an orchestra he cofounded.
He is also a faculty member at the Haute École de Musique de Genève.

Antoine Marguier in Action, ©robnijpels

Orchestre National de Lyon – Resident Conductor (2010 – )

CMgo – Genève (2008 – )
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
LSO Maastricht
Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, South Africa
Zurich Tonhalle Orchester
Sinfonietta de Lausanne
Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Opéra de Marseille
Asko Schönberg Ensemble – Amsterdam
Orchestre de Chambre de Genève
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Orchestres de l’Académie de l’ONL
Ensemble Contrechamps
Compagnie du Rossignol
Niiza Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Aspen Concert Orchestra (USA)
Ensemble Paul Klee, Bern
UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra
Bieler Symphonie-Orchester – Orchestre Symphonique de Bienne
Orchestre Français des Jeunes
Orchestre Symphonique des Jeunesses Musicales de Suisse
Orchestre de la Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève
Orchestre à cordes du Pays de Gex
Orchestre Saint-Pierre Fusterie
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Zlin – Czech Republic
Choeur de la Radio Slovaque