Marc Minkowski

Conductor Marc Minkowski is best known as the founder and longtime director of Les Musiciens du Louvre, a pioneering French Baroque ensemble that has also proven one of the field's most durable. He has also conducted music of the Classical and Romantic periods, often unearthing and shaping performances of forgotten works. In 1982, Minkowski founded Les Musiciens du Louvre, one of the first instrumental groups to specialize in the French Baroque, and he got a boost when he won the first International Early Music Competition in Bruges, Belgium, two years later. His recorded repertory focused on little-known Baroque works, but he also recorded perennial favorites, such as Handel's Water Music, in 1998. Minkowski has unearthed little-known works such as Grétry's La Caravane du Caire. In 2022, he was heard on recordings of Rameau's Nouvelle Symphonie and Meyebeer's opera Robert le Diable.