Bruno Membrey is a pianist and conductor.

A laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, Bruno Membrey – pianist, double bassist and conductor from Douai – studied at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) and the École Normale de Musique de Paris.

He has built a career as a pianist specialising in accompaniment, working with violinists Vanessa Mae, Vineta Sareika (concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic), Vasko Vassilev (concertmaster of the Royal Opera House, London) and Lisa Kerob (concertmaster of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo); cellist Marc Coppey; flautists Christelle Delaval (principal flute of the Orchestre National de Lille) and Patrick Gallois; pan flute player Gheorghe Zamfir; trumpeter Guy Touvron; sopranos Chloé Chaume, Françoise Garner, Nathalie Manfrino, Mady Mesplé, Amélie Robins, Leontina Vaduva, Alexise Yerna and Elisabetta Zizzo; mezzo-sopranos Karine Deshayes, Delphine Haidan, Valentine Lemercier, Héloïse Mas and Annunziata Vestri; countertenor Fabrice di Falco; tenors Diego Godoy, Florian Laconi and José Todaro; and baritones Alain Fondary, Gabriel Bacquier, Michel Trempont…

He has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine (Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue) and the Orchestre de Douai (Grieg’s Concerto and Rhapsody in Blue), as well as in Tunisia (Carthage Festival, Nuits de Monastir), Croatia, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Morocco, the United Kingdom…

His show “Bruno se fait des films”, a solo piano recital of film music, has just enjoyed great success on the Estivales tour.

He also works regularly as a pianist on cruise ships.

An Officier des Palmes Académiques, Bruno Membrey has served as director of the Conservatoire and artistic director of the Théâtre de Tourcoing.

As a conductor – a former pupil of Pierre Dervaux and Louis Fourestier – he made his debut at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris and has since conducted the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the orchestras of the opera houses of Reims, Toulon, Avignon, Dijon, Limoges and Massy and of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, the Saarbrücken Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, the Sofia Radio Orchestra, Moscow’s “Viva Musica”, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Bratislava Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Morocco, the Warsaw Radio Orchestra, the China National Opera, Shanghai…

With violinist Vanessa Mae, he conducted at the Berlin Philharmonie (concert broadcast on ARTE).

Discography:

- Film Music – Sofia Radio Orchestra – DVD

- Film Music and Musicals – Orchestre des Jeunes de Tourcoing – CD

- Albert ROUSSEL – Ensemble Instrumental de Flandre Wallonne – CD

- CHOPIN Recital (Waltzes, Mazurkas, Preludes, Nocturnes…) – CD

- Ah, cette Belle Époque ! – with Guy Touvron, trumpet, and Michel Glasko, accordion – CD