Florent DIDIER is part of the new generation of musicians who are open to different esthetics and orchestral formations. A sensitive, passionate and complete conductor, he collaborates with symphony orchestras, choirs, brass bands, wind bands, and multifaceted ensembles, reaching out to all audiences.
Prize winner of the prestigious international competition « British Open » at the symphony Hall in Birmingham in 2017, he was selected by Atso Almila (Sibelius academy) for the final stages of the International Conducting Competition in Augsburg, Germany. He was musical director of the Paris Brass Band from 2008 to 2020. With this formation, he won many national and international contests. He is also winner of the Oslo Brass festival in 2023, and the 2023 and 2024 Norwegian National Champion with Eikanger-Bjørsvik. He clinched a 3rd prize at the 2024 EBBC international competition and a 2nd prize at the Swiss Open international competition in Lucerne in 2023.
Assistant conductor of François-Xavier Roth for different projects, he is invited by many orchestras as well as the Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of the Toulouse Capitole and becomes artistic director of the Metalak Euskal Herrian.
Contemporary music takes a large part in his activities and he also conducts different ensembles like Ars Nova, 2e2m in recordings and concerts at Radio France and for France Musique.
Florent DIDIER regularly conducts on major international stages, including the Royal Albert Hall, the Birmingham Symphony Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Auditorium of Radio France, the Oslo Konserthus, the Bergen Grieghallen, the Montreux Stravinsky Auditorium, the KKL Lucerne, the Perth Concert Hall, the Tokyo Hiratsuka Hall, the Nouveau Siècle in Lille and the Malmö Konserthus. He also participates in many festivals in France and abroad such as the festival of St Denis, the festival de la Chaise Dieu, the festival Ravel or the festival Cervantino in Mexico.
He studied first trombone in Paris conservatory and has a master’s degree of Musicology, the Certificate of Aptitude, the Teacher’s Competition for Artistic Education and a Master of Pedagogy training in music teaching, diplomas which conclude his many courses at the University of Reims and the Conservatoires Nationaux Supérieurs de Musique et de Danse (CNSMD) in Paris and Lyon. His research in the field of early music and his training as a singular musician allow him to connect all repertoires, and to approach contemporary creations with open mind and originality. He offers attractive and original programmes, which have already convinced many programmers such as the Interceltic festival, the Opera Garnier, the University of Bergen, Radio France or the Aix en Provence festival.
Also very attached to the training of young musicians, he develops and directs the various devices of the orchestras and conducting classes of the Regional Conservatory of Créteil, leads the Maitrise of Radio France during the premiere of «Ecce Homo, Ecce Paris» by Olivier Calmel. He also regularly conducts the Démos orchestra at the Philharmonie de Paris. Internationally, he conducts the 2022 session of the European Youth Brass Band (Birmingham), an orchestral session at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) in 2023, the National Jugend Brass Band der Schweiz, the Paris National Conservatory Orchestra (CNSMD) as well as the Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra in 2024.
Requested by several summer academies, he trains students in the process of professionalization at work in orchestral sections and conducting. He regularly participates in Master Classes and as jury member in national and international competitions.
Florent DIDIER contributes to many and various recordings. He arranges for strings and choirs (Tryo, Clarika), for brass (Ryan Leslie), works with artists such as Michel Legrand, Vladimir Cosma, Vincent Delerm, Yaël Naïm, Ibrahim Maalouf, Juliette and participates to many different tv shows on French tv (Victoires de la Musique, Taratata, Mogador, Olympia).
Florent DIDIER was honored by the French Minister of Culture with the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.