Assistant Choir Director
Jean-Christophe Charron
The conductor and pianist Jean-Christophe Charron has been deputy choir director at the Komische Oper Berlin since 2017.
He received piano, chamber music and accompaniment diplomas from the Bordeaux and Boulogne-Billancourt conservatories in France. His piano teachers there were Marie-Paule Siruguet and Alain Motard. He also studied music theory at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and orchestral conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
He received piano, chamber music and accompaniment diplomas from the Bordeaux and Boulogne-Billancourt conservatories in France. His piano teachers there were Marie-Paule Siruguet and Alain Motard. He also studied music theory at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and orchestral conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
He attended masterclasses with Colin Davis, Ilya Musin, George Hurst, Lothar Zagrosek, Salvador Mas i Conde and Jörg Birhance, among others.
From 2005 to 2014, Jean-Christophe Charron worked in Greece as conductor of the Greek State Opera Athens, the Athens State Orchestra, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra and the Thessaloniki Municipal Orchestra. He has worked as a répétiteur at the Thessaloniki Opera and Concert Hall.
From 2014 to 2016 he was répétiteur, conductor and arranger of the vocal and opera department at the Berlin University of the Arts.
As an international chamber musician, he was active in Europe and Taiwan, worked as a piano, chamber music and theory teacher as well as a vocal and instrumental accompanist. He has also conducted youth choirs and orchestras in France, Great Britain and Greece and accompanied masterclasses by Cheryl Studer, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Equiluz, Laurent Pillot, Gary Hoffmann and Gidon Kremer as a pianist. He also played at the Pablo Casals Festival. Since 2018, Jean-Christophe Charron has also been the musical coach of the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar.