Bruno Monsaingeon made his debut as a conductor with the orchestra in Yekaterinburg in 2004, soloed in Bach’s Violin Concerto with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted Mozart and Beethoven concerts in a program with the outstanding pianist Boris Berezovsky.
Bruno Monsaingeon directed films about the greatest musicians of our time, including Nadia Boulanger, Yehudi Menuhin, Glenn Gould, Victoria Postnikova, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Murray Perahia, Michael Tilson Thomas, Zoltan Kocsis, Friedrich Gulda, Paul Tortelier, Julius Katchen and many others.
Bruno Monsaingeon was born in 1943 in Paris. For several years he researched the life and work of David Oistrakh. He made a film about the violinist entitled David Oistrakh, People’s Artist? in 1994. His documentary work about another genius Russian musician is called The Riddle of Richter (or Richter the Unconquered) which was released in 1998 and received many awards, including the FIPA Film Festival prize.
The movies about genius musicians made Bruno Monsaingeon famous around the world. His book "Richter. Dialogues. Diaries" has become a bestseller in many countries and has been republished more than once.