International Philharmonic Orchestra Paris

ALBENIZ : Asturias

BACH : Concerto Brandebourgeois N° 5 – Concerto pour violon – Double concerto pour violon

BARBER : Adagio pour cordes – Concerto pour violon

BARTOK : Concerto pour orchestre – Suite de Danses

BEETHOVEN : Symphonies n° 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8 et 9 – Concertos pour piano n° 1, 3, 5 – Triple Concerto pour piano, violon et violoncelle – Concerto pour violon – Romances pour violon en fa et en sol – ouvertures : Egmont, Coriolan Léonore III.

BERLIOZ : Symphonie Fantastique – Nuits d’été

BERNSTEIN : Danses de West Side Story – Ouverture de Candide…

BIZET : Suites symphoniques : Carmen et l’Arlésienne – Symphonie n°1

BORODINE : Prince Igor : Danses Polovtsiennes

BRAHMS : Symphonies n° 1, 3, 4 – Concerto pour violon – Double concerto pour violon et violoncelle Ouverture Tragique – Variations sur un thème de Haydn – Danses hongroises n° 1, 3, 4 et 5

BRUCH : Concerto pour violon n° 1

BRUCKNER : Symphonie n° 4, 5

CHABRIER : España

CHOPIN : Concertos pour piano n° 1 et 2

CHOSTAKOVITCH : Symphonie n°4, 7 Concerto pour violoncelle n° 2

DEBUSSY : Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune – Petite Suite – La Mer

DUKAS : L’apprenti Sorcier

DVORAK : Symphonie n° 7, 8, 9 – Sérénade pour cordes – Ouverture Carnaval – Concerto pour violoncelle

ELGAR : Pompe and Circumstance – The Wand of Youth suites

FALLA : Amour sorcier (Suite)

GERSHWIN : Rhapsody in blue – Concerto pour piano en Fa – Ouverture Cubaine

GLINKA : Ouverture de Ruslan & Ludmila

GRIEG : Peer Gynt (Suites) – Concerto pour piano

HAYDN : Symphonies n°88, 94, 96, 100, 101, 103, 104

KHATCHATURIAN : Concerto pour violon – Suite de Mascarade – Danse du sabre

KODALY : Hary Janos (Suite)

LISZT : Les Préludes – Concerto pour piano n° 2 – Dance Macabre

MAHLER : Symphonies n° 1, 2, 4, 5

MENDELSSOHN : Symphonie n° 3, 4 – Concerto pour violon n° 1 – Grotte de Fringal

MOUSSORGSKY : Tableaux d’une exposition – Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve

MOZART : Symphonies n° 25, 29, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41 – Concertos pour piano n° 20, 21, 23,24, 26, 27 Concerto pour flûte et harpe – 2 Concertos pour flûte – Concerto pour violon n° 3, 5, Symphonie concertante pour violon et alto – divertimento en ré – Petite musique de nuit – ouvertures : Don Giovanni, Les Noces de Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, Enlèvement au sérail et La Flute enchantée.

PROKOFIEV : Symphonie n° 1, 5 – Roméo et Juliette (Suites) – Pierre et le Loup – Concerto pour violon n°2

RABAUD : Suite symphonique

RACHMANINOV : Concerto pour piano n° 2, 3 – Symphonie n°2 et 3

RAVEL : Boléro – Ma Mère l’Oye – Tombeau de Couperin – Daphnis et Chloé – La Valse – Pavane pour une infante défunte – Tzigane

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV : Capriccio Espagnol – Schéhérazade

ROSSINI : Ouvertures de Guillaume Tell – Barbier de Séville – Italienne à Alger – Pie voleuse

SAINT-SAENS : Symphonie n° 3 – Suite Algérienne – Havanaise – Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso – Cyprès et Lauriers – Carnaval des animaux

SCHOENBERG : La Nuit Transfigurée

SCHUBERT : Symphonies n° 4,5, 8, 9

SCHUMANN : Symphonie n° 3, 4 – Concerto pour piano

SIBELIUS : Finlandia – Valse Triste

STRAUSS (Johann) : Le Beau Danube Bleu – Valse de l’Empereur – La Chauve-souris – Le Baron tzigane – Marche Egyptienne – La Bayadère – Marche de Radetzky

STRAUSS (Richard) : Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra – Don Juan

SUPPE : Ouverture de la Cavalerie Légère

STRAVINSKY : Le Sacre du Printemps – Petrouchka – l’Oiseau de Feu – Les Noces

TCHAIKOVSKI : Symphonies n° 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 – Romeo et Juliette – Capriccio Italien – Marche Slave – Concerto pour piano n° 1 – Concerto pour violon – Variations sur un thème rococo – Sérénade pour cordes – Ballets : Le Lac des Cygnes et Casse-noisette

TOMASI : Balade pour harpe

VERDI : Ouvertures : La Force du Destin, Vêpres Siciliennes, Traviata, Nabucco

VIVALDI : Les Quatre saisons

WAGNER : Prélude de Lohengrin – Ouverture Tannhaüser – Tristan et Isolde : Prélude et mort d’Isolde – Maitres Chanteurs

WALDTEUFEL : Les Patineurs

WEBER : Ouverture du Freischütz

Orchestre Philharmonique International - Paris

International Philharmonic Orchestra - Paris

UNESCO Artists for Peace

Created in 1997, the International Philharmonic Orchestra – Paris (IPO-Paris) is an orchestra which brings together fifty high-level professional musicians, representing around twenty nationalities and living in Paris.

AN ORCHESTRA COMMITTED TO INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

Under the musical and artistic direction of the conductor Amine KOUIDER, its founder, the orchestra has interpreted the greatest works of symphonic music, opera and oratorio and participated in prestigious concerts and high-level festivals in France and abroad. As such, it received significant media coverage (TV5 Monde, France 2, Al Arabiya, CNN).

Since its creation, the orchestra has produced musical seasons which distinguished themselves thanks to their artistic diversity and unprecedented musical fusions. In doing so, it has promoted intercultural dialogue between the East and the West and has defended and spread the UNESCO values of peace, tolerance and fraternity.

The Orchestra has a large symphonic, opera and oratorio repertoire including: Thaïs, Carmen, Faust, La Belle Hélène, Don Giovanni, Les Noces de Figaro, Boris Godounov, Nabucco, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Aida, Cavalleria Rusticana and Tosca.

AN ARTISTIC JOURNEY OF EXCELLENCE IN PARIS AND AROUND THE WORLD

In Paris, the Orchestra plays regularly in several prestigious halls such as:

Salle Gaveau - Auditorium of Radio France - Grand Amphitheater of La Sorbonne - Palais des Congrès - Theater of the Opéra-Comique - Theater Montansier of Versailles - Theater of Ranelagh – Theater of Porte Saint-Martin - Arab World Institute.

The Orchestra has also given concerts in the churches of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Saint- Augustin, Saint-Eustache and the cathedral of Evry.

Since 2017, the Orchestra plays regularly at La Seine Musicale located in Boulogne Billancourt, near Paris, as part of the program "An Opera in Concert".

Abroad, the Orchestra gave, in May 2022, a series of concerts in Saudi Arabia(Riyadh and Jeddah) at the invitation of the French Embassy in Saudi Arabia as part of the celebrations of "Europe Day" in partnership with the European Commission and the Saudi Ministry of Culture.

In March 2022, the Orchestra was invited to give a series of three concerts in Riyadh as part of the "Arabic Philharmonic Music at Riyadh Front" festival organized by the Saudi Ministry of Culture.

In addition, the Orchestra has made several tours in France(Marseille, Lyon, Nice, Reins, Caen, Chartres,Chantilly, Arles, Bayonne, Guadeloupe) and abroad (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia).

A HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH UNESCO

Between 1997 and 2017, the Orchestra was in residence at the UNESCO and participated in major artistic events linked to various UNESCO programs including:

Heritage education for young people - End of commemorations of the centenary of the Great War - World AIDS Day - Protection of museums in conflict zones - Ocean week - Vulnerable children in Africa - Women's education in Senegal - The Children of Burundi -Cultivate Peace, International Poetry Day.

The International Philharmonic Orchestra has been named “UNESCO Artist for Peace”since 1999.

THE ORCHESTRA

REPERTORY

SYMPHONIC
OPERA
ORATORIO

UNESCO Artist for Peace

Amine KOUIDER is a conductor with an international career of great and rich musical performance. His personality is expressed in an energetic and spirited direction that has earned him great success in the many renowned courses he has conducted in France and abroad. Under Valery GERGIEV at the Saint Petersburg Opera, as the assistant conductor during three years, allowed him to build the musical tradition and to grow in an international artistic stage of music.

The international stage

Amine KOUIDER is regularly invited to conduct various orchestras: Toulouse National Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Mulhouse Symphonic Orchestra, Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Toulon Opera Orchestra, Lamoureux Orchestra.

He has also conducted: Kirov Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Opera, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Cappella Orchestra, Saint Petersburg State Orchestra, Bucharest National Opera Orchestra, Cairo Symphonic Orchestra, Tunisian Symphonic Orchestra, Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra and Cuba National Symphonic Orchestra.

A charismatic artistic director

From 1998 to 2004, he was the musical director of the Paris International Orchestra; he performed many concerts and recordings.

During 2001 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2016 he was the artistic director of the Algeria National Symphonic Orchestra, where he was above many great projects as “Algiers, Capital of Arab Culture 2007” and “Constantine Capital of Arab Culture 2015” and “International Festival of Symphonic Music of Algiers” from 2014 to 2018.

From 2012 to 2014 he was named as the musical director of the Algeria-France Symphonic Orchestra. At the same time, he is also advisor for music to the Minister of Culture in Algeria and the project manager of the new Algiers’s opera and conducted the opening concert.

Since 2016, Amine KOUIDER is named artistic director of this opera and principal conductor of the Symphonic Orchestra of Algiers Opera. This position lead him to conduct a rich repertory of symphonic works, ballets, and nearly 30 operas including Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Barber of Seville, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Carmen, Madame Butterfly, The Nutcracker and The Swan Lake.

Amine KOUIDER is also the artistic director and principal conductor of the International Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir of Paris, which he founded in 1997. This ensemble in residence at UNESCO-Paris allowed him to give regular concerts as part of the cultural and humanitarian campaigns of the Organization in a repertory of oratorios such as Verdi’s Requiem, Requiem of Brahms, Requiem of Dvorak, Mass in C of Mozart and operas in concerts such as Boris Godunov, Faust, La Belle Helene, La Vie Parisienne, Aida, Il Trouvatore and Cavalleria Rusticana. Using his two cultures and becoming an ambassador between bounders, he shows a big interest to the other musical artistic styles.

A great training

Born in Algiers in 1967, he studies violin and discovers at 17 years the orchestra conducting. He studies at the Algiers conservatory where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in musicology.

Moving to France, he studies orchestra conducting at the Marseille conservatory, then in Paris and Copenhagen with Michel TABACHNIK. He also obtains master’s degree in musicology at the Sorbonne University.

Amine KOUIDER perfects his classes as conductor with Manuel ROSENTHAL, Ilya MUSIN and Daniel BAREMBOIM in: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirov Opera House of Saint Petersburg, Berlin National Opera, Paris National Opera, Geneva Orchestra and Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Roma.

Amine KOUIDER, "UNESCO artist for Peace"

The French-Algerian conductor Amine Kouider was designated UNESCO Artist for Peace in April 1999, in recognition of his commitment to promote tolerance and the culture of peace through his musical activities.

In 1997, he founded the International Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra, working to spread the message of tolerance, peace and rapprochement of cultures through music. The International Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra was also named UNESCO Artist for Peace in April 1999.

As Artistic Director and founder of the Algeria-France Symphonic Orchestra, bringing together Algerian and French musicians, he champions the bridging of cultures between the two countries.

Mr Kouider supports the #UNITE4HERITAGE campaign led by UNESCO, which aims to highlight and safeguard cultural heritage and diversity around the world.