Othman Louati is a French percussionist, conductor and composer. After winning four prizes from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (Percussion, Analysis, Fugue and Harmony) and studying conducting, he became involved in the French musical landscape as an active member of the ensembles Le Balcon (percussionist, composer/arranger) and de Miroirs Etendus (associate artist). He regularly collaborates with prestigious phalanges of the French musical landscape such as the Orchestre de Paris, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the orchestra Les Dissonances, the Paris Percussion Group as well as the Comédie Française (production Electre/Oreste, directed by Ivo Van Hove). His passion for electronic music leads him to begin a collaboration with artist Jacques Perconte in 2019, drawing heavily on new digital tools for musical creation.
Invested in a vast approach to reinterpreting the classical repertoire, he reinterpreted Dracula by Pierre Henry (2017) with Augustin Muller (IRCAM) for the ensemble Le Balcon, proposed for his company Miroirs Etendus a rereading of Faust after Berlioz (2018) and Orphée (2020) after Gluck for ensemble and electronics. Since 2018, he has also been scaffolding several eclectic programs aimed at renewing the classical concert form, such as a diptych Bowie-Cage, a secular high mass, Matines, around Kurtág, Dowland and Gesualdo.
He is currently writing the music for Tiphaine Raffier’s new staging for in the Festival d’Avignon 2020 and collaborating with Didier Sandre, for whom he is composing the music for Paul Claudel’s La Messe Là-bas, a Comédie Française production in autumn 2020.
He is the author of several cycles of melodies for voice and ensemble around the poetry of Paul Eluard and Yves Bonnefoy, chamber music pieces and mixed works. His output has been performed by Festival La Brèche, Festival Jeunes Talents, Festival de Musique de Chambre du Larzac, Trio Xenakis, for venues such as Opéra de Rouen, Opéra de Lille, La Maison de La Radio, the Fondation Singer-Polignac, the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, the Maison de la Culture de Valenciennes, the Théâtre de l’Athénéeor the Institut Français de Florence.