Sarah Louvion
Sarah Louvion is a French classical flautist. The award-winning player has been the principal flute of the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester from 2002, and is active as a soloist and chamber musician. She has given international master classes.
Biography
A native of the north of France, Louvion studied flute at the, with Raymond Guiot, Philippe Pierlot and Vincent Lucas. She also studied mathematics and physics. She studied further at the Conservatoire de Paris, in the transverse flute classes of Alain Marion's and Sophie Cherrier, and in chamber music. She was accepted to further studies after graduation.She has been invited to international festivals, such as the MIDEM of Cannes in 2000, in the framework of the "classical revelations" of the. She has been invited to festivals such as the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, to the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte in Germany, and to the International Festival of Colmar, where she premiered Guillaume Connesson's Flute Sonata which he dedicated to her.
Since 2002, Louvion has been principal flautist of the Orchestra of the Frankfurt Opera, the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester. She has played with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, the orchestra of the WDR Köln, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Opera Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de France, and the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, among others.
She performed as a soloist with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, the, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Pasdeloup Orchestra, the Orchestre de chambre Amadeus, the Douai Orchestra, the Tokyo Ensemble, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, among others. After playing Bach's Orchestral Suite in B minor at the Frankfurt Alte Oper in December 2011, she played in February 2012 in Lisbon, Mozart's Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, alongside harpist Xavier de Maistre, with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
Her partners in recitals are the pianist Delphine Bardin, and the harpist Françoise Friedrich. Numerous engagements have taken her regularly to Asia, where she has also given master classes.