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Order No: 55002 Mussorgsky: A night on the bare mountain Brahms: Symphony no 3 in F major op. 90   Orchestra: The French Symphonic Orchestra Conductor: Laurent Petitgirard   Born in 1950, Laurent Petitgirard studied the piano with Serge Petitgirard and composition with Alain Kremski. An eclectic musician, his career as a composer of symphonic music (more than twenty works) and of film music (150 scores) is matched by his activity as a guest conductor the world over. In 1989 he founded the Orchestre Symphonique Français which he conducted until 1996, also directing, from 1986 to 1997, the Festival and the Academy of Flaine (Haute-Savoie). In December 2004 he was elected music director of the Orchestre Colonne in Paris. Laurent Petitgirard has made some thirty records, notably of Honegger’s Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher and several world premiere recordings, including Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit in the orchestration by Marius Constant.  Laurent Petitgirard’s first opera, Joseph Merrick dit Elephant Man was first performed in French, in February 2002 at the Prague State Opera, conducted by himself. He continues to collaborate on a regular basis with the Berliner Symphoniker, which he conducted twice in the 2004-2005 season. Laurent Petitgirard has just begun work on his second opera, Guru, to be premiered by Nice Opera in December 2007. He received  various prizes, among others the SACEM Prize in 1990 and the Prix Musique 2001 of the SACD for his opera Joseph Merrick dit Elephant Man. In December 2000 he was elected Member of the French Institute, in the seat of Marcel Landowski at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Laurent Petitgirard is a Commandeur des Arts et Lettres.