Jean-Christophe Keck

Jean-Christophe Keck is a musicologist and conductor, born Briançon, France in 1964. He is particularly noted as a specialist in the works of Jacques Offenbach, and is the director of the complete critical edition in progress, named after both, Offenbach Edition Keck (OEK).

As a child he played tuba in the Briançon town band and after early studies at the école de musique de Briançon he attended for two years the Conservatoire de Marseille before entering the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris. There he followed courses in conducting with Jean-Sébastien Bérault, musicology and composition with Pierre Villette, vocal studies (tenor) with Christiane Eda-Pierre, and piano. He was struck early by a passion for the music of Offenbach, through the TV series Les Folies Offenbach with Michel Serrault, the recording of Belle Hélène conducted by René Leibowitz and that of Les Contes d'Hoffmann conducted by Pierre-Michel Le Conte, with Heinz Rehfuss. He also singles out conductors Jules Gressier, Marcel Cariven and Jean Doussard who managed to create miracles of music under difficult conditions.

Alongside a singing career, in which he was engaged at the (Opéra Bastille, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Opéra de Lyon), he also began to conduct. He was involved in film, radio and television including some of his own compositions.

He is the musical director of Pro 05, the chamber orchestra of the Hautes-Alpes, as well as the Festival lyrique des châteaux de Bruniquel (Tarn-et-Garonne). Since 2004, he has directed the Offenbach concerts of the Orchestre des Concerts Pasdeloup. In April 2012 he conducted Ba-ta-clan and Mesdames de la Halle for the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin.

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