French conductor and composer Jérémie Rhorer was born in Paris on July 15, 1973. A student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, he studied harpsichord and composition, with Thierry Escaich, Emil Tchakarov, William Christie and Marc Minkowski as his teachers and role models. Founder in 2005 of the Cercle de l'Harmonie with violinist Julien Chauvin, he focuses on playing 18th- and 19th-century period instruments. The orchestra accompanies soprano Diana Damrau on the recitals Arie di Bravura (2008) and Mozart: Donna (2009), as well as countertenor Philippe Jaroussky(La Dolce Fiamma, Diapason d'or in 2009), and records Symphonies nos. 25, 26 & 29 for the Erato label. In 2011, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie performs at London's Barbican Center and releases Le Paris des Romantiques, featuring Napoléon-Henri Reber's Symphony No. 4 and Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, performed with pianist Bertrand Chamayou. This first live recording was followed two years later by Cherubini's opera Lodoïska (2013), and three Mozart operas recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées: L'Enlèvement au sérail (2016), La Clémence de Titus (2017) with Karina Gauvin and Julie Fuchs, then Don Giovanni (2017) with Jean-Sébastien Bou. In July 2016, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie performed at the BBC Proms. Jérémie Rhorer also conducts Rossini's Le Barbier de Séville on period instruments at the Edinburgh Festival and Bremen Musikfest, and, in 2018, Verdi's La Traviata at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. 2019 sees the release of Gaspare Spontini's opera Olimpie, with Karina Gauvin. In the same year, Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, directed by Katie Mitchell, and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, directed by James Gray, are presented at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. His work as a composer includes Le Cimetière des enfants for piano and orchestra and a Cello Concerto (2014), written for Jérôme Pernoo.
