Biography

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Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in the class of Alain Altinoglu, Alizé Léhon began her conducting career by collaborating with various French and international ensembles. In May 2024, she obtained her Master’s degree with unanimous distinction, and in August of the same year she won the Neeme Järvi Second Prize at the Gstaad Festival Conducting Academy. She was selected for the Malko International Conducting Competition in Copenhagen in April 2024, where she conducted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
As a guest conductor, Alizé has worked with renowned orchestras such as the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, the Orchestre Philharmonique de l’Opéra de Nice, the Orchestre National de Cannes, the Orchestre Colonne, the Orchestre National de Metz Grand Est, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.
Demonstrating versatility across a range of repertoires, she conducted the premiere of Aznavour Symphonique with singer Jules Grison in April 2024 and has led several performances of Piaf Symphonique with singer Isabelle Boulay.
In March 2023, she served as musical director for Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story at the CNSMDP. Supported by students in vocal performance, music, dance, and sound engineering, this musical production was a first for the Conservatoire and was received with great enthusiasm by artists, audiences and critics alike.
Alizé has also worked as assistant conductor with prominent conductors such as Michael Schønwandt with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, Alexandre Bloch with the Orchestre National de Lille, Michel Plasson with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Benjamin Levy with the Orchestre National de Cannes, and Mikko Franck with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
As part of her pedagogy diploma at the CNSMDP, she wrote a thesis on music in prisons and will conduct a concert at the Paris-La Santé prison in January 2025. Since September 2023, she has conducted the DÉMOS Metz Moselle-Nord Orchestra in a three-year program, with a concert at the Philharmonie de Paris planned for June 2025.
Committed to amateur orchestras, Alizé has served as musical director of the Chœur et Orchestre des Grandes Écoles (COGE) Philharmonic since January 2022. In July 2023, she celebrated the ensemble’s 40th anniversary with a concert at the Radio France Auditorium, bringing together nearly 300 instrumentalists and choristers. In the 2023-2024 season, she also conducted the Philharmonie de Paris Amateur Orchestra, with a final concert at the Cité de la Musique. With the Orchestre Impromptu, she has been involved in various projects, including premieres of young composers, music and dance performances and outreach concerts.

The year 2025 promises to be full of projects: she will conduct three concerts in the Playing For Philharmonie programm at the Philharmonie de Paris, featuring the Chœur et Orchestre de la Société Générale, Les Siècles, and Les Métaboles. She will return to the Orchestre Colonne for Prokofiev’s Pierre et le Loup, conduct a cinema concert with the Ensemble Orchestral Épinal La Belle Image, and make her debut at the Théâtre du Châtelet in a new production of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, with stage director Karelle Prugnaud.