Having studied composition and conducting at the Conservatory of Paris, Serge Baudo chose to pursue composition at first. He wrote music for French radio as well as scoring films. Via his connection with Louis Malle (with whom he recorded “Les Amants”), he met Yves Cousteau. This meeting gave birth to a close collaboration which produced the recordings of "Monde du Silence", "Le Monde sans Soleil" (music by Baudo) and "Voyage au Bout du Monde" in the style of Ravel and Debussy. Very quickly, however, his career as a conductor took an international turn and precedence over his career as a composer. After establishing himself exclusively as a conductor in 1959, Serge Baudo was chosen in 1962 by Herbert von Karajan to conduct Debussy's «Pelleas et Melisande» at La Scala (Milan). For more than 10 years Gabriel Dussurjet entrusted Maestro Baudo with numerous productions at the Aix en Provence Festival in repertoire ranging from Mozart to Debussy. Serge Baudo’s first major appointment was the place of permanent conductor at the Paris Opera in addition to being the first principal conductor of the newly founded Orchestre de Paris. From 1970 to 1988, as Musical Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon, he toured China, Japan, Korea, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Switzerland, Canada and the United States. In 1979 Serge Baudo founded the Berlioz Festival in Lyon, contributing to a better understanding of Berlioz’ orchestral works as well as of his operas. In 1987, he conducted a production of the complete version of Berlioz’ Les Troyens. In addition, Serge Baudo has guest conducted with many of the world’s most important orchestras and operas. His engagements included the Metropolitan Opera, Staatsoper Wien, the Konzertgebau, the BBC, The Philharmonia, Wiener Symphoniker, the Moscow and Leningrad Symphonies, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra, the NHK, as well as the major orchestras of Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. During this substantial spate of guest conducting, he also made his Prague debut with the FOK and later also guest conducted the Prague Philharmonic (the two most important Czech orchestras). Serge Baudo’s discography is particularly notable, featuring recordings with the London Philharmonic, l’Orchestre de Paris, l’Orchestre National de Lyon and the Prague Philharmonic. These recordings all give particular attention to the promotion of French musical repertoire. Most recently Serge Baudo has focused his attention on productions in Berlin, Leipzig, Bruxelles, the Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon and Radio Lugano. He also had great success at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires with Jeanne d’Arc de Bucher with Isabel Karajan as Jeanne d’Arc, concert with the Muenchner Philharmoniker, Dresdner Philharmoniker etc. In December 07 Serge Baudo has been invited to conduct the 40st birthday celebration of the Orchestre de Paris together with S. Ozawa, von Dohnanyi and C.Eschenbach. Serge Baudo was appointed Music Director of the Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK) in October 2001.
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