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{{short description|French flutist and conductor (born 1956)}}
'''Patrick Gallois''' (born 1956) is a French [[flutist]] and [[conducting|conductor]].

Gallois was born in Linselles near the town of [[Lille]] in the north of France. At the age of 17 he began studies at the [[Conservatoire de Paris]] with the celebrated flutist [[Jean-Pierre Rampal]] and after two years received the First Prize.  At the age of 21 he became principal flutist of the [[Orchestre National de France]] under [[Lorin Maazel]]. He served in that capacity from 1977 to 1984. In 1984 he left this post for a career as a flute soloist and, later, conductor.

Gallois has played under many famous conductors, including [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Karl Böhm]], [[Pierre Boulez]], [[Sergiu Celibidache]], [[Eugen Jochum]], and [[Seiji Ozawa]]. He also regularly collaborates in chamber music with [[Yuri Bashmet]], [[Jörg Demus]], [[Natalia Gutman]], the [[Lindsay String Quartet]], and [[Peter Schreier]]. Formerly he performed with Jean-Pierre Rampal and the harpist [[Lily Laskine]].

Gallois has had an exclusive recording contract with [[Deutsche Grammophon]] and, more recently, has recorded with [[Naxos Records|Naxos]]. His discography currently includes some 75 recordings.

He has been teaching at the [[Accademia Musicale Chigiana]] since 1999.

From 2003 to 2012 Gallois was the music director of [[Jyväskylä Sinfonia]] in [[Jyväskylä]], Finland. He toured with the orchestra in Europe and Japan.

==Selected recordings==

=== Conductor ===

* Camille Saint-Saëns, Violin concertos n°1, n°2, n°3, [[Fanny Clamagirand]], violin, Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskilä, conductor Patrick Gallois. CD Naxos 2009

==References==
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*[http://www.patrickgallois.com/index.html Official Patrick Gallois site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194247/http://www.patrickgallois.com/index.html |date=2007-09-27 }}
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== External links ==
* Patrick Gallois- [http://eng.chigiana.it/patrick-gallois/ Accademia Musicale Chigiana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802205319/http://eng.chigiana.it/patrick-gallois/ |date=2017-08-02 }}

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