Jacques Lacombe
Canadian conductor Jacques Lacombe (51), who is Music Director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 2009, will not renew his contract the ensemble in 2016. Lacombe was assistant conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1994 to 1998, and later its principal guest conductor from 2002 to 2006. He was chief conductor and music director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens from 1990 to 2003. He became music director of the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières in 2006. In Europe, Lacombe was music director of the Philharmonie de Lorraine in Metz, France from 1998 to 2001.
