Yan Pascal Tortelier

Yan Pascal Tortelier (born 19 April 1947) is an internationally renowned French conductor and violinist and is the son of the late cellist Paul Tortelier. Born in Paris, Tortelier has worked and recorded extensively with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester Ô[][] for whom he was Principal Conductor from 1992 to 2003. He also made an acclaimed recording of French music with the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber which included the cello concertos of Saint-Saens and Honegger for Universal Classics. He is also currently the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYOGB). Tortelier served in the newly-created post of Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2005 to 2008. He is currently the Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Sinf├┤nica do Estado de S├úo Paulo (OSESP).