Alexandre Ouzounoff began playing the piano at the age of 6 and the transverse flute at 13, but it was with the bassoon that he found a way to live his passion and practice music. A pupil of Maurice Allard, he went on to win 1st prize in Music History at the Paris Conservatoire in 1977. He then embarked on a dual international career as a chamber musician with the OZI Reed Trio (winner of the 1978 Martigny International Chamber Music Competition) and as a soloist in contemporary creation. With a D.E. and C.A., he taught bassoon at the CRR de Versailles from 2003 to 2022.  Over the years, he has developed the contemporary bassoon repertoire through numerous encounters with composers in France and abroad. Over a hundred works are dedicated to him. He has worked tirelessly to have most of these works published and won the confidence of Salabert Editions by being appointed Director of the “Bassoon Collection”. His “Actuellement le Basson” method has become a reference work for composers and bassoonists in contemporary playing modes.His taste for improvisation naturally led him to the world of jazz (Portal, Solal, Jenny Clark, Cinelu, Hampton, Fémi Kuti) and then to musical composition.Enriched by his contacts with all the composers who had previously worked and composed for him, he decided in the early 2000s to devote himself exclusively to composition.In 1998, he won 1st prize at the Concours International de Composition de St Jacques de Compostelle, and in 1999 received his first commission from the CNSMD de Paris, marking the start of his career as a composer. Since then, hi catalog has included some sixty works premiered in Paris, Lausanne, New York, Lisbon, Vienna, Bonn, Taiwan, Beijing, Chicago, etc.

Alexandre Ouzounoff’s works are performed by musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra Wales, Paris Opera, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Finnish Radio Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.