Antoine Marguier

Antoine Marguier is a French orchestra conductor.

Marguier has led such orchestras as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Swiss Musical Youth Orchestra and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, among others. His most recent invitations have included subscription concerts with the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, where he led performances of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony, and with the Orchestre National de Lyon. Other recent appearances have included concerts with the Nizaa Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, and the Lausanne Sinfonietta on its 2007 China tour. In August 2009, Marguier returned to China, this time conducting the orchestra of Geneva's Haute Ecole de Musique, during an official visit of the country. In September 2009, he conducted Amsterdam's AskolSchönberg Ensemble in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, in an operatic premiere produced by the Théâtre de la Monnaie.

Marguier served as artistic and music director of the Orchestre à Cordes du Pays de Gex from 1996 to 2005. He has occupied the same positions with the Orchestre Saint-Pierre-Fusterie in Geneva since 1998 and the Geneva Conservatoire Orchestra since 2007. He is also conductor designate of the United Nations Symphony Orchestra in Geneva, which will make its debut in January 2010.

Since his critical success conducting Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat (as staged by Omar Porras in 2003 and 2004), he has been a regular guest conductor with Geneva's leading contemporary group, the Ensemble Contrechamps, including a tribute to composer Gyorgi Ligeti at the Cully Jazz Festival in collaboration with the pianist Malcolm Braff. Over the last years, he conducted the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Marseille as part of its "Forbidden Music" Festival, honoring composers who were victims of the Nazi regime during the Second World War. In June 2006, Marguier opened the Geneva Summer Music Festival in a concert by the Orchestre de chambre de Genève (Geneva Chamber Orchestra) and, in September 2006, he was guest conductor of the Ensemble Paul Klee in Bern.

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