Assistant conductor at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique during the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 seasons as part of the Favart Academy, Guillemette Daboval is also a leading choral conductor of the new generation.
Artistic and musical director of the ensemble Esquisses, which she founded in 2017, she led the ensemble to record its first CD, Par un matin, released in September 2023 on the Evidence label. In 2024, she also founded the Datura company alongside pianist Timothée Hudrisier, director Mathilde Bellin, choreographer Frank Gizycki and costume designer Carmen Espérou.
A student of Lionel Sow at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, she will be awarded her Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Musicien (DNSPM) in 2019, followed by her Master's degree and the Diplôme d'Etat d'Enseignement Artistique in 2022. She is also studying singing and orchestral conducting, a discipline in which she has benefited from the teaching of Julien Masmondet, Enrique Mazzola and Debora Waldman.
Her presence at the Opéra-Comique has led her to work closely with Louis Langrée on the production of Ravel's L'heure espagnole directed by Guillaume Gallienne, and with Laurent Campellone on Thomas Jolly's production of Offenbach's Fantasio.
In March 2024, she collaborated for the first time with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris during the filming of the programme Fauteuils d'Orchestre. She also made her debut with the Rouen Opera Orchestra during the summer metropolitan tour.
In 2021, she collaborated with the Eric Ericson Choir as a semi-finalist in the prestigious Eric Ericson Competition in Stockholm.
Since the same year, she has been conducting the Chœur et Orchestre des Jeunes project with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées at the Théâtre-Auditorium in Poitiers.
In 2022, she conducted Bizet's Carmen with the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and was also assistant conductor at the Berlin Opernfest for the production of Strauss's Die Fledermaus. Since the same year she has been a regular guest conductor with the Chœur de Radio France, where she will be one of the guest conductors for the 2023/2024 season for the world premiere of Rufus Wainwright's Dream Requiem.
She works regularly with Mathieu Romano and the ensemble Aedes, with the Accentus choir on the radio drama Solaris directed by Christophe Hocké and broadcast by France Culture, and assisted Quentin Hindley in 2019 in a production of Mozart's The Magic Flute.
Considering work with amateur ensembles to be an important part of her musical mission, she is also musical director of the Cantrel de Lyon and the ensemble 6/5 barré. She has been represented by the RSBA agency since 2023.
Guillemette Daboval is a member of the Académie de l'Opéra-Comique in the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 classes.
