Franck-Emmanuel Comte

Franck-Emmanuel Comte has been musical director of the "Concert de l’Hostel Dieu" since its foundation in 1992. He graduated in composition and conducting from Lyon’s National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance (High School for Music and Dance). Choirmaster of the Nantes and Pays de la Loire Opera house from 1994 to 1997, he is now also artistic director of the Musicales en Auxois festival in Burgundy. He has been invited as conductor or a hapsychordist by the Lyric Training Center of Paris’ Opera House, the Choir of Lyons’ Opera, at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie,, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain in Lyon… he has also become the artistic director of the International J.S. Bach Music Centre in South of France.

His great engagement and passion for directing the "Concert de l’Hostel Dieu" has lead him and his Ensemble to perform regularly in festivals of national or international renown such as Ile-de-France, Ambronay, Chaise Dieu, Comminges,, Saint-Guilhem, Saoû chante Mozart, Classique au Vert in Paris, the Toulon Festival, the Eté Musical of the Vichy Opera house, the Montserrat, Torroella de Montgri Festivals in Spain, the Seviqc-Brezice Festival in Slovenia, the Italian Le cinque perle del Barocco “ festival in Rome…

More than eight hundred concerts performed during the 17 last years have contributed in creating a united and talented artistic team around its director Franck-Emmanuel Comte.

He defends the originality and specificity of the regional repertoire promoting manuscripts conserved in regional libraries, and achieving various restitutions and publications of unpublished scores (eg Il Martirio di Sant’Orsola from A. Scarlatti).

At the same time, he creates original projects for which he collaborates with other ensembles: Garlic Bread (traditional Irish music), Joussour (arab-andalousian music), Frères de sac and Lyons’ National Orchestra of Bagpipes (traditional french music), Tavagna (corsican Polyphonies), Neapolis (Neapolitan music), Ars Iberica (Spanish early music)…