Louis Langrée

Conductor Louis Langrée is one of a comparatively small number of musicians from France to have held high-profile posts in the U.S., which has tended to favor Germanic or native-born figures. He is the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Langrée was born in Mulhouse, France, on January 11, 1961. His father, Alain Langrée, was an organist and choral director. Langrée studied at France's Strasbourg Conservatory but has never taken a conducting class. His path to the profession began when he took a job as a vocal coach at the Opéra National de Lyon in 1983. Late...