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A once-in -a-lifetime opportunity for you and a guest to join Music Director Jacques Lacombe for coffee and conversation in his dressing room prior to attending an NJSO dress rehearsal at NJPAC in Newark. This is an amazing opportunity to talk with Jacques and gain insider’s knowledge about the program being rehearsed that day, including how it was selected, Jacques’ experience conducting it and what the Orchestra is doing to prepare for the performance.

After the rehearsal, you and your guest can enjoy lunch for two at NICO Kitchen + Bar at NJPAC and take home an autographed CD of the NJSO’s most recent recording of Carmina Burana conducted by Jacques.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Music Director JACQUES LACOMBE is renowned as a remarkable conductor whose artistic integrity and rapport with orchestras have propelled him to international stature.

Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal from 2002 to 2006, he led the orchestra in more than 100 performances. He served for three years as Music Director of both orchestra and opera with the Philharmonie de Lorraine in France; he has been Music Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières since 2006.

Lacombe’s engagements for the 2011–12 season include his debut with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Malaga in Spain, return engagements with the Vancouver Opera in Roméo et Juliette and with the Deutsche Oper in Un Ballo in Maschera, as well as two rarely performed operas: Felix von Weingartner’s Die Dorfschule and Carl Orff’s Gisei – Das Opfer. Lacombe will make his Carnegie Hall debut as part of the May 2012 Spring for Music Festival with the NJSO.

Highlights of the 2010–11 season included the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s opening gala with Joshua Bell, season-opening concerts with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and return engagements with the Opera Company of Philadelphia for Roméo et Juliette, Deutsche Oper Berlin for Ariadne auf Naxos and Vancouver Opera for La traviata and the world premiere of John Estacio’s Lillian Alling. He led Le Cid starring Roberto Alagna and Béatrice Uria-Monzon at l’Opéra de Marseille, broadcast throughout Europe on Mezzo TV, and saw the release of a critically acclaimed NJSO CD, featuring JanáÄA?ek’s Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

In recent seasons, Lacombe made his debut with the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. He led Turandot and Les Contes d’Hoffmann for Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Der fliegende Holländer, Eugene Onegin, Zemlinsky’s Der Traumgörge and concert performances of Waltershausen’s rarely heard Oberst Chabert at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Oberst Chabert was released as a live CD by CPO in 2011. He has also led operatic productions at the Metropolitan Opera and Teatro Regio in Turin, given the world premiere of Vladimir Cosma’s Marius et Fanny at l’Opéra de Marseille and worked abroad with orchestras in Nice, Toulouse and Halle, as well as with the Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris, Slovakia Philharmonic, Budapest Symphony, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Victoria Orchestra Melbourne and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Lacombe received his musical training at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal and at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna.

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To be scheduled on a mutualy agreeable date not later than June 30, 2013.