During 2026/2027 season, the French conductor David Molard Soriano, born in 1989, continues his collaboration with Jaap van Zweden and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France: after serving as assistant conductor on the orchestra's May 2026 tour in Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan), he rejoins them for a new tour and conducts the backstage music in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" with Jaap van Zweden. He also returns to the Brasov Philharmonic, for three programs notably alongside Mikhail Pletnev, and to the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra with harpist Xavier de Maistre. He also makes his debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Equally at home in the symphonic repertoire, from Bruckner to Enescu and Ravel to Strauss, as in opera and ballet, he has conducted the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille at the La Roque-d'Anthéron International Piano Festival, Bordeaux National Opera (Madama Butterfly, Don Quixote ballet), the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier at the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, the Orchestre National de Metz, the Russian National Orchestra, the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra and the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra with Oscar-winning composer Gabriel Yared.
In 2023/24 he made acclaimed debuts in Monaco at the helm of all the Principality's artistic forces (Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera and Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Cecilia Bartoli Academy) in a triumphant new production of Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges and Balanchine's La Valse, celebrating Rainier III's centenary. The following season brought re-invitations to the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Orchestre National de France. A regular guest of the Brasov Philharmonic since 2021, he has built close ties with Romania, where he has also conducted the Enescu Philharmonic, the Camerata Regala of Bucarest and the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, as well as two programmes at the George Enescu International Music Festival.
His path has been shaped alongside leading conductors. As Paavo Järvi's assistant from 2014 to 2018, he worked with him at the Orchestre de Paris and the Estonian Festival Orchestra (Pärnu Music Festival, BBC Proms), and assisted Gustavo Dudamel and Fabien Gabel at the Rencontres Musicales d'Évian. From 2019 to 2022 he was Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre National de France under Emmanuel Krivine and Cristian Macelaru, conducting the orchestra in numerous concerts and recordings, from core repertoire to world premieres. In 2021 he was a semi-finalist at the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors.
Also an orchestrator, he completed Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin by orchestrating the Fugue and Toccata, which the composer had left for piano alone. They were premiered and recorded by the Orchestre National de France under Cristian Macelaru at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2025, and he conducted them himself with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille at La Roque-d'Anthéron in 2026.
In 2022 he founded the Rencontres Musicales du Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil, a 13th-century fortress in the heart of France, where he serves as artistic and music director and leads his own festival orchestra. Over five editions the festival has welcomed artists including Liya Petrova, Marie-Ange Nguci, Florian Sempey, Aurélien Pascal, Manon Galy, Raphaël Sévère, Catherine Trottmann, Iris Daverio, Jonathan Fournel and Sarah Nemtanu. Six years earlier he had founded the Orchestre des Jeunes d'Île-de-France, a pre-professional orchestra acclaimed for its high standards, whose highlights include Saint-Saëns' "Organ" Symphony with Thomas Ospital at Saint-Eustache in Paris and Vadim Repin's Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Lille with Jean-Claude Casadesus and Nicholas Angelich.