Charles-François Gounod was the son of a talented painter, François-Louis Gounod, and a distinguished woman who was his first piano teacher. After graduating from the Lycée Saint-Louis, he studied harmony […]

Born in Angers in 1979, François Meïmoun won first prizes in piano, musical analysis (Prix de la Sacem 1999) and chamber music (Gérard Chenuet’s classes) at the Conservatoire National de […]

Grand Prix de la Ville Paris, First Prize at the Prince Pierre de Monaco International Composition Competition (symphonic music category), First Grand Prix de Rome, Marsden Foundation (New York) and […]

Energy in sounds, driven by meaning. Passionate about the close relationship between music and words, he draws constant inspiration from the latter. For the stage, he wrote Fando et Lis […]

Philippe Chamouard was born in Paris. He has always been keen to distance himself from any influence or school. That’s why, in 1987, he decided to destroy all his previous […]

Bruno Coulais is a French composer born in Paris on January 13, 1954, best known for his film scores. He gradually turned to the cinema, not because he wanted to, […]

Born in 1987, Célia Triplet studied music from an early age. After starting out on the piano, she decided to devote herself to the violin, at the age of 8, […]

Claude Debussy was a French composer born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on August 22, 1862, and died in Paris on March 25, 1918. Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, written in 1894, […]

Born in 1950, Olivier Greif studied music at the Paris Conservatoire. He studied with Lucette Descaves for piano, Jean Hubeau for chamber music, Tony Aubin for composition, Robert Blot for […]

David Hudry is a French composer who is interested in the exploration of dramaturgy using heterogeneous musical characters. Inspired by the graphic arts, especially by Klee and Kandinsky, his music […]