Born in Nice in 1977, Alexis Kossenko now leads a career both as a conductor and a flautist. With his deep knowledge of all the historical forms of his instrument, he plays the modern flute (he graduated́ from the CNSM in Paris in Alain Marion’s class and won the 2000 Rampal Competition) as well as the baroque, classical and romantic flutes, and the recorder. He performs as a soloist with numerous orchestras and ensembles including the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Concerto Copenhagen, Ensemble Matheus, Philharmonie der Nationen, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Stradivaria, Barokksolistene, B’Rock, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, La Chambre Philharmonique, Modo Antiquo, Le Concert Lorrain, Holland Baroque Society, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz and Gli Angeli Genève, in a repertoire ranging from Vivaldi to Khachaturian. He has performed or conducted at the Berlin, Warsaw and Stockholm Philharmonics, the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Concertgebouw in Bruges and Amsterdam and the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen. [..]