Patrick Gallois belongs to the generation of French musicians with highly successful international careers as soloists and conductors. At the age of 17, he studied flute with Jean Pierre Rampal at the Paris Conservatory and was principal flautist of the National Orchestra of Lille.
At the age of 21, he was appointed principal flautist in the National Orchestra of France under the direction of Lorin Maazel. It was then that he began a seven-year career playing and recording under the direction of many renowned conductors such as Pierre Boulez and Seiji Ozawa. During this period, he studied with Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache.
In 1984, he decided to focus on his solo career, which has taken him all over the world, starting in Japan, where he toured and sold 100,000 copies of Mozart’s flute concerto in one year. This success earned him an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, for which he recorded ten albums.
In the early 1990s, he founded the chamber orchestra “Académie de Paris” together with some friends. He is regularly invited as a conductor throughout Europe, but also in Canada and Japan. His conducting career took on a new dimension in 2003 when he was appointed Artistic Director of the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, a position he held for 9 years.
With an exclusive contract with Naxos, he has recorded more than 40 albums for the company, including 25 in which he conducted the early symphonies of Haydn, Mauricio Kagel and Peteris Vasks. Since 2013, he has been regularly invited to Italy: Milan, I Pommerigi Musicali, Orchestra di Padova; Finland: the Oulu and Kuopio Philharmonic Orchestras; Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Mexico: Orquesta de Guadalajara; Japan: Fukuoka Philharmonic; Argentina: Filarmónica de San Juan; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and many others.