Fayçal Karoui

Fayçal Karoui (born 1971),[1] is a conductor of Tunisian descent.

He won a prize at the 1991 Besançon International Young Conductors Competition and first prize in conducting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in 1997.

[2] The Aïda scholarship that year gave him the chance to work under Michel Plasson and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and the following June he was appointed Plasson’s assistant.

He was the New York City Ballet's music director from December 2006 to spring 2012.

[4] Since January 2011, he is the music director of the Orchestre Lamoureux.