Pierre Korzilius

Jun 8, 2021 | Experts

Director of Institut Français in Düsseldorf and Köln, Germany. Between 2003-2010 Director of the Auditorium of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris – involving all performing arts activities of the museum: music, opera, theatre, cinema, readings. Since 2008, Artistic Director, Festival Les Nuits Romantiques (classical music festival). 1997-2003 Head of Music Department of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. He organized following exhibitions: Gustav Mahler, Musée d’Orsay, Music and the Third Reich, Musée de la Musique, with P. Huynh and E. Hondré, Klinger/Brahms: Etchings, Music, Phantasy, Musée d’Orsay, with E. Héran, Mallarmé and Music, Musée d’Orsay.

In addition he was also a Teaching Professor for Arts Management at University of Paris I Panthéon- Sorbonne, École des Hautes Études Commerciales’ (HEC), Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, Research Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio, Technologies (CNMAT), Lavoisier grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He obtained Ph.D., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, Musicology; Thesis: “Public Support and Contemporary Classical Music in France, Germany, the UK and the US”, Diplom-Kaufmann, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, Diplôme, École de Management de Lyon.