Tonight sees Matthew Halls make his Paris conducting debut in the first of two concerts with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. They will be joined by clarinettist Raphaël Sévère and pianist Marie-Ange Nguci at for an all-Mozart programme that concludes with the composer’s final “Jupiter” Symphony, No.41. The performance at at Théâtre de Maisons-Alfort will be repeated at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 17 November.

Mathew’s Paris debut follows last week’s short notice step-in to conduct the Antwerp Symphony and Collegium Vocale Gent in two performances of Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem. He returns to the choral repertoire next month when he leads the Salzburg Mozarteumorchester and Houston Symphony in Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium and Handel Messiah respectively.

Appointed Santtu-Matias Rouvali successor as Chief Conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic earlier this season, Matthew’s spring highlights include his Minnesota Orchestra debut with Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony and a return to the Indianapolis Symphony to conduct Beethoven and Richard Strauss.