Marc Leroy-Calatayud

Born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland, by a French father and a Bolivian mother, Marc held the position of Associate Conductor for L’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève for the 2022/23 season. This included a critically acclaimed semi-staged production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Benjamin Bernheim. He previously held the position of Artist-in-Residence of Orchestre National de Cannes for the 2021/22 season. For the 2025/26 season, Marc will be the Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique Région Centre-Val de Loire/Tours.

Highlights for this season aside his debut at Bayerisches Staatsballett with Onegin will include a return to the National Ballet of Japan (Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella), his staged opera debut with the Opéra National de Lorraine (Dialogues des Carmélites), opera gala performances in Bilbao with Xabier Anduaga and Nadine Sierra, a concert performance of La voix humaine with Patricia Petibon at the Opéra National de Lyon, performances of Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète with Marina Viotti, John Osborn, and the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève in Geneva & Paris, and a debut appearance at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie for a gala concert with Benjamin Bernheim & Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Recent symphonic highlights have included Orchestre National d’Île de France, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal De Liège, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Tokyo Philharmonic, Oviedo Filarmonia, and Orchestre de Chambre de Genève. Opera highlights include Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Les Siècles (Werther), Lausanne Opera (Fortunio), and his debut at Wiener Staatsoper (Roméo et Juliette).

He has recently worked with orchestras including Real Filharmonia de Galicia, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Opéra de Massy, Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, an extensive Japanese tour with Kanazawa Orchestra Ensemble, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Orchestra della Toscana, and Ensemble Modern Frankfurt. Marc was Assistant Conductor at the Opéra National de Bordeaux from 2016 to 2019 where he regularly conducted opera and ballet performances, as well as symphonic concerts.

(Information as of February 2026)