​The 2024-25 seasons brings William Le Sage back to the Orchestre National de Cannes to conduct Peter and the Wolf and to the Opéra National de Lorraine for Hans Krása’s Brundibar, directed by Pénélope Driant and Suzie Baret-Fabry. He will also return to the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier for several concerts, including Il maestro di Cappelle de Cimarosa, rarely performed in France, with baritone Bruno Taddia, and a symphonic program in Millau of music by Stravinsky, Mozart, Sibelius, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Other future projects this season include working on operas Iphigénie en Tauride at the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp, Belgium and Luigi Cherubini’s Medée with the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier as assistant conductor to Benjamin Bayl and Jean-Marie Zeitouni, respectively.
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William Le Sage firmly believes that music, in all its forms, is a popular art to which everyone should have access. He will never stop defending this vision and continually put it in practice in past seasons, especially while assistant conductor of the Opéra National de Lorraine. The numerous performances that he conducted there were warmly received, such as the Halloween concert in 2023 with choir and orchestra, the final round of the Mirecourt International Violin Competition, a film concert of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, Le Festin de l’Araignée by Albert Roussel with live illustrations by Amandine Meyer, and the collaborative shows Où allez-vous comme ça ? and Violetta-s.​ At the opera, William has worked on productions of Idomeneo, Don Pasquale, Der Silbersee by Kurt Weill, The Capulets and the Montagues, The Love for Three Oranges, The Barber of Seville, Tristan and Isolde, Iphigénie en Tauride, Manru by Ignacy Paderewski, La Traviata, La Clemenza di Tito, Haydn’s Il Mondo della Luna, and Talestri, Regina delle Amazoni by Maria-Antonia Walpurgis as assistant to conductors including Marie Jacquot, Giulio Cilona, Jakob Lehmann, Marta GardoliÅ„ska, Leo Hussain, Ramón Tebar, Gaetano Lo Coco, and Tito Ceccherini. He has also been invited on multiple occasions to conduct the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie, Orchestre National de Cannes, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Ensemble Court-circuit, and worked as assistant conductor for the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National de Lyon and Orchestre National de Lille.​
​​​William Le Sage obtained two master’s degrees from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in orchestral conducting (class of Alain Altinoglu and Alexandre Piquion) and style composition, and has certificates in analysis and orchestration. A strong proponent of musical exchange and collaboration, he has participated in several international exchanges. In 2018, he was selected to participate in the Donatella Flick-London Symphony Orchestra conducting competition. From 2017 to 2018, he studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. In 2016, he had the opportunity to work with the young musicians of the Simon Bolivar foundation in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Insatiably curious and eager to share his experiences and ideas, William Le Sage is also a composer and arranger of several works, notably those intended for pedagogical use, one of the many manifestations of his desire to make music more accessible to a wider audience.
