The opportunity to develop the art of being both musician and conductor with the orchestra is a unique artistic experience. Having direct contact with the musicians in the orchestra, working jointly on the style, articulation and balance, learning the gestures… so many elements combine to instill a concerto with the true spirit of chamber music. 

The renowned Orchestre de chambre de Paris has made the ‘Play-Direct’ technique one of the mainstays of its work with many great musicians like Thomas Zehetmair, Maxim Vengerov, Stephen Kovacevich, Heinrich Schiff as well as Joseph Swensen, Jeffrey Kahane and François Leleux. 

Thanks to the support from its main sponsor,  Monceau Assurances , in 2013 the Orchestre de chambre de Paris organises its second Play-Direct training academy, the "Paris Play-Direct Academy".

The training on the Play-Direct technique is completed by a first approach of conducting a short symphonic piece.

The training programme includes preparatory work in Vendôme with a small orchestra (a piano and strings quartet) and rehearsals with the 40 musicians of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris at CENTQUATRE, its home in Paris. Finally, there will be a concert where the participants can put their work into practice, side by side with the orchestra in the prestigious Cité de la musique hall in Paris on 28 June 2013.

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