Louis Langrée is celebrating his final season with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, where he has been music director since 2013; at the conclusion of the season, he will become music director laureate. He continues as director of Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique in Paris, an appointment that began in November 2021. He ended his 20-year tenure as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in the summer of 2023. Known for imaginative programming, Maestro Langrée began his Cincinnati tenure with Jennifer Higdon’s On a Wire with Eighth Blackbird; Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait, narrated by Dr. Maya Angelou; and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Two of his Cincinnati recordings were Grammy-nominated for Best Orchestral Performance: Transatlantic, with works by Varèse, Gershwin, and Stravinsky; and Concertos for Orchestra, featuring world premieres by Sebastian Currier, Thierry Escaich, and Zhou Tian. His Pelléas et Mélisande trilogy contrasted settings by Fauré, Debussy, and Schoenberg. His multi-season Beethoven Revolution cycle has paired the symphonies with world premieres and 20th-century masterworks, as well as recreation of Beethoven’s legendary 1808 Akademie concert. By the time Maestro Langrée ends his tenure with CSO, he and the CSO will have commissioned 45 new orchestral works and he will have conducted 31 premieres from a wide range of composers, including the world premiere of Christopher Rouse’s Symphony No. 6, the composer’s final opus. Maestro Langrée has conducted more than 200 performances and concerts at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, and on the Great Performers series, and has also conducted at the Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Bavarian Staatsoper, and at festivals including Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence, BBC Proms, Edinburgh International, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. A native of Alsace, France, Maestro Langrée is a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and Officier des Arts et des Lettres.