LOUIS ARQUES
Clarinetist, Conductor, artistic director
Born in the French Alps, Louis Arques has now been ascending musical heights in New York City for eight years. As a clarinetist, he performs solos with orchestras (B. Marsalis Blues, M. Gorecki Trio Concerto, Mozart Concerto), is a sought-after chamber music partner (Bridget Kibbey Trio, Diálogos Brazilian Duo, Quintet of the Americas) and orchestra principal (Hearbeat Opera, Radio City Rockettes Orchestra, Brooklyn Orchestra).
Believing in artistic creation, he commissions and champions new works by European and American composers.
He also performs as a saxophonist and singer, and you can hear him with Afro-Cuban and Jazz ensembles across the city.
As an artistic director and orchestral conductor, he created the Avalanche Orchestra to cross musical boundaries and foster education through music and arts. Louis Arques also co-directs the Brooklyn Orchestra and is an active artistic production consultant.
Passionate about education, he has taught clarinet at Ithaca College and saxophone at Cornell University and is on faculty at the Diller-Quaile School of Music, 92NY, and Krakauer Institute for Intensive Summer Study (KIISS).
