The French musician Louis Langrée has been Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York since December 2002 and his first four festivals have been marked with extensive critical acclaim. During the 2006/07 season his engagements include debut appearances with the Baltimore, Dallas and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestras as well as return visits to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. He will also make his debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago with Gluck's 'Iphigénie en Tauride'. In Vienna in 2006 he conducts Mozart's Zaide with the Camerata Salzburg directed by Peter Sellars and a series of performances with the Mark Morris Dance Company, as part of the city's Mozart anniversary celebrations. In future seasons he will make his debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Rome Santa Cecilia Orchestra, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

The 2005/6 season marked the end of Louis' five year tenure as Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège. In addition to concerts in Belgium, he conducted them on tour in Europe including Paris, Vienna and Geneva. He has worked with many other orchestras both in Europe and further afield, including the London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Houston Symphony and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. He also regularly conducts period instrument orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Concerto Köln and Le Concert d'Astrée. Festival appearances have included Spoleto, Drottningholm, les Chorégies d'Orange, Wiener Festwochen and the BBC Proms with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Natalie Dessay. He has previously held positions as Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie (1993-98) and of the Opéra National de Lyon (1998-2000).

Louis Langrée was Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera for five years and has worked regularly at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has also conducted at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Dresden Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre in Geneva, Opéra-Bastille and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. For his performance in Fidelio at Glyndebourne Opera in 2001 he was the joint recipient, with Sir Simon Rattle, of the Royal Philharmonic Society's award for Best Musical Achievement for Opera.

Louis Langrée has an extensive discography including Berlioz with Véronique Gens/Orchestra of the Opera National de Lyon and Mozart arias with Natalie Dessay/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Elina Garanca/Camerata Salzburg, all on Virgin Classics. With the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège he has recorded the Schumann Cello Concerto with Anne Gastinel (Naïve), the Liszt, Ravel and Schulhoff Piano Concertos with Claire-Marie Le Guay and the Franck and Chausson Symphonies (Accord/Universal). Many of these recordings have won awards including Victoire de la Musique, Diapason d'Or and Gramophone. A disc of Mozart's C minor Mass with Le Concert d'Astrée has recently been released by Virgin Classics.