{{short description|French conductor (born 1962)}} {{Infobox person | name = Marc Piollet | image = | image_upright = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1962}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = | death_place = | education = Berlin University of the Arts | occupation = {{plainlist| * Conductor * Academic teacher }} | organizations = {{plainlist| * Staatstheater Kassel * Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden * University of Music and Performing Arts Graz }} }} '''Marc Piollet''' (born 1962) is a French conductor. After positions at the Staatstheater Kassel and Volksoper in Vienna, he was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden from 2004 to 2012.
== Career == Born in Paris, Piollet studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, conducting with Hans-Martin Rabenstein and choral conducting with Christian Grube.<ref name="Munich" /> He attended master classes with John Eliot Gardiner, Michael Gielen, Kurt Masur and Lothar Zagrosek.<ref name="Gasteig" />
After his studies he was employed as First Kapellmeister at the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle and at the Staatstheater Kassel, where he was also deputy music director. Subsequently he received an engagement at the Vienna Volksoper from 2003 to 2005.<ref name="Gasteig" /> From 2004, Piollet was Generalmusikdirektor at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where he conducted Wagner's complete ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''.<ref name="Gasteig" /> He also conducted new productions of Mozart's ''Idomeneo'' and ''Don Giovanni'', Weber's ''Der Freischütz'', Rossini's ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', Verdi's ''Rigoletto'', ''Simon Boccanegra'', ''Don Carlos'' and ''Falstaff'', Wagner's ''Lohengrin'' and ''Tristan und Isolde'', and Puccini's ''La Bohème'' and ''Tosca''.<ref name="Gasteig" /><ref name="Hessen" /> Piollet also conducted numerous symphony concerts with the Hessisches Staatsorchester.<!--He ended his activities as general music director in Wiesbaden in 2012 with the conducting of Mahler's Symphony No. 2.--><ref name="Hessen" />
Guest engagements led the conductor to the Hamburg State Opera, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Cologne Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, and music stages of Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Barcelona, among others.<ref name="Gasteig" /><ref name="Clobes" /><!-- He has a close artistic collaboration with the soprano Annette Dasch.--> Piollet has conducted leading orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Brandenburger Symphoniker and the Dresden Philharmonic.<ref name="Munich" />
Since October 2016 Piollet has been professor of orchestral conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.<ref name="Gasteig" /><ref name="Graz" />
== Recordings == <!--* Mozart (with Annette Dasch), Sony Classical Records 2008--> In 2001, Piollet conducted recordings of rarely played romantic symphonies with the orchestra of the Staatstheater Kassel, Norbert Burgmüller's Symphony No. 1 in C minor and Hugo Staehle's Symphony No. 1 in C minor, for the label Sterling.<ref name="Vasta" />
Piollet conducted a production of Bizet's ''Carmen'' at the Liceu in Barcelona in 2010, staged by Calixto Bieito, with Béatrice Uria-Monzon in the title role, which was recorded on DVD.<ref name="Billinge" />
== References == {{Reflist|30em | refs =
<ref name="Billinge">{{cite web | last = Billinge | first = Dave | url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2011/Dec11/Bizet_Carmen_707404.htm | title = Georges Bizet (1838–1875) / Carmen – Opéra-comique in four acts (1875) | website = musicweb-international.com | date = December 2011 | accessdate = 11 February 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Clobes">{{cite web | last = Clobes | first = Juliane | url = https://www.freundederkuenste.de/aktuelles/kultur-und-medien/einzelansicht/artikel/konzert-klassik-4-sinfoniekonzert-mit-gastdirigent-marc-piollet-am-1401-im-staatstheater-kassel/ | title = Marc Piollet | website = freundederkuenste.de | language = de | accessdate = 11 February 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Vasta">{{cite web | last = Vasta | first = Stephen Francis | url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Nov08/Burgmuller_Staehle_cds10462.htm | title = Norbert Burgmüller (1810–1836) / Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 2 (1833) / Hugo Staehle (1826–1848) / Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1844) | website = musicweb-international.com | date = November 2008 | accessdate = 11 February 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Gasteig">{{cite web | url = https://www.ks-gasteig.de/en/piollet-biography | title = Marc Piollet / Conductor | publisher = Gasteig | accessdate = 10 February 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Graz">{{cite web | url = https://www.kug.ac.at/ueber-die-universitaet/ueber-die-universitaet/personen/professorinnenprofessoren.html?tx_kugpeople_pi1%5Bperson_nr%5D=58765&cHash=0c89c646cd919b9bc7da0d7782b1568a | title = Univ.Prof. Marc Piollet | publisher = University of Music and Performing Arts Graz | language = de | accessdate = 11 February 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Hessen">{{cite web | url = https://bildungsklick.de/bildung-und-gesellschaft/meldung/marc-piollet-bleibt-generalmusikdirektor-in-wiesbaden/ | title = Marc Piollet bleibt Generalmusikdirektor in Wiesbaden | publisher = bildungsklick.de | date = 14 February 2008 | language = de | accessdate = 11 February 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Munich">{{cite web | url = https://www.mphil.de/en/persons/marc-piollet.html | title = Marc Piollet | publisher = Münchner Philharmoniker | accessdate = 10 February 2019 }}</ref>
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