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Artistic Director

YVES COHEN

YVES COHEN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Yves Cohen of Marseille, France, began his musical training as a violinist, studying chamber music and music theory extensively at conservatories in France. After an apprenticeship in conducting with Pierre DERVAUX, he was invited to study at TANGLEWOOD with Leonard BERNSTEIN, Seiji OZAWA, Leonard SLATKIN and Gustav MEIER. He studied as well at a summer conducting academy in Salzburg with Milan HORVAT, and in Vienna with Hans SWAROWSKI.
The University of Michigan awarded him the Eugene ORMANDY Scholarship, and Mr. Cohen earned his doctorate in orchestral conducting at that university in 1988. Later in the same year, Mr. Cohen was a semi-finalist in the Tokyo International Competition for young conductors. He has conducted a number of orchestras in Switzerland, France, Poland, and the U.S.A. Until 2001, he was professor of orchestral conducting at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance at La Rochelle, France. Yves COHEN is founder and artistic director of the Institut Musical de Provence-Aubagne (I.M.P.A.).