MARC LEROY-CALATAYUD

Born in Lausanne to a French father and Bolivian mother, Marc Leroy-Calatayud was Associate Conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève in the 2022/23 season, where he led a highly acclaimed semi-staged performance of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Benjamin Bernheim. He was previously Artist in Residence with the Orchestre National de Cannes during the 2021/22 season.

Highlights of his 2024/25 season include engagements with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Tokyo Philharmonic, Oviedo Filarmonía and Orchestre de Chambre de Genève. On the operatic stage he makes debuts at the Wiener Staatsoper (Roméo et Juliette), Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Les Siècles (Werther), and Opéra de Lausanne (Fortunio), and returns to the Opéra de Nice (Cendrillon).

He has recently conducted ensembles such as the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt and Orchestra della Toscana, among others.

From 2016 to 2019 he was Assistant Conductor at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, where he regularly conducted opera, ballet and symphonic concerts. He studied conducting in Vienna and Zurich with Mark Stringer and Johannes Schlaefli, and was a Fellow of the Akademie Musiktheater Heute between 2018 and 2021.