UE composers from France

Born in 1960, studied viola with S. Wiener, M.-Th. Chailley and T. Adamopoulos. Joined in 1986 the Metz National Orchestra (formerly Lorraine National Orchestra) in which he still plays today. Later he studied composition with François Narboni and was given advices by George Crumb, Philippe Hurel Martin Matalon... One of the founding members of Ensemble Stravinsky, dedicated to contemporary music, he played in it and composed for it till the end of the ensemble in 2018.

Antonio Estévez (1916-1988) was a Venezuelan composer, oboist and conductor. He composed ‘Mediodia en el llano’ two years before graduating as composer in 1944, in Caracas. In 1945, he continued composition studies in Columbia University and Summer courses at Tanglewood, with other Latin-American composers as Ginastera and Orbón. 1947-48, in Paris, he was close to Venezuelan Cinetic painters Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesus Soto and composer Pierre Boulez. In 1950’s, he composed ‘Concierto para orquesta’, ‘La Cantata criolla’ (perhaps the most important Venezuelan nationalist work of the 20th century), beautiful choral and piano pieces. Estévez explored electroacoustic music in Paris from 1962-71 at the French Radio-Television ORTF with Pierre Schaeffer. ‘Cromovibrafonía’ was commissioned for the Venezuelan pavilion of Montreal Expo in 1967 and ‘Cromovibrafonía múltiple’ for the Soto Museum of Modern Art (Venezuela). His music has been widely recognized and is being played worldwide.

Christophe Looten is a composer whose works are played in Europe as well in the USA. He has been Composer in Residence at Wellesley University, Round Top International Festival, Casa de Velazquez in Madrid and in several occasions in France. He received a Fulbright Grant and is since Member of the Selection Committee. Appointed Officier des Arts et Lettres, 2005, he is Member of the International Music Council (UNESCO). He received important grants and prices like SACEM Grant, Stendhal Prize (for his writings about Art), Jolivet Prize, Besançon Prize, AFAA Grant, Lavoisier Grant, Wildenstein Prize, etc. He published a book «Dans la tête de Richard Wagner» (Fayard, Paris) awarded by the famous Bordin Prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. More information about the composer on https://christophe-looten.com & http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Looten

David Chaillou is a French contemporary classical composer currently living in Paris.Trained at the Conservatoire de Paris  (harmony, piano, acoustics) and at the Sorbonne (history and musicology), he writes for various combinations of instruments, including solo instruments, small ensembles, voice, orchestra, and mixed music. His music is both expressive and innovative and is an original synthesis between French music and the minimalist school. 

He has received commissions from the Orchestre de Bretagne, the Committee for the 500th anniversary of Trinità dei Monti in Rome, and the Beethoven Festival in Bonn as part of the 50th anniversary of the Traité de l’Élysée between France and Germany.

His works have been broadcast by France Musique, Radio Classique, ORF (Austria), Orpheus Radio (Russia), RTS (Switzerland), WDR3, NDR3, BR-klassik, RBB-Kultur (Germany), Rai 3 (Italy), Musiq 3 (Belgium), YLE-National-Finnish Radio,  Arte, Mezzo, Telewizja Polska (Poland), and France Télévisions and are performed in many European countries, Finland included.

His recent works include: 

• Légendes his first monographic cd for piano solo performed by finnish pianist Laura Mikkola  recorded in February 2020 by Fuga libera (Outhere). https://outhere-music.com/fr/albums/legendes-fug761
• Solo for violin,first performed by Valeria Zorina at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid in 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CZYDqo2y1s&list=PLe2gMH7xqNAiS5EkYkxihXJ-uw2bCylJY&index=2
• Léger au front, music theatre performed at the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris in 2018 with the sculptor Patrice Alexandre, staging by Jacques Gamblin. German version with Karl Markovics (Carinthischer sommer).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf20fSSBZjE
• Little Nemo (libretto by Arnaud Delalande and Olivier Balazuc), a children opera first performed at Angers-Nantes Opéra and the Opéra de Dijon in 2017 with the mezzo-soprano Chloé Briot and the Ensemble Ars Nova. The opera was awarded the Prix de l’Association Beau- marchais (SACD). Broadcast on France Musique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cj4AkwmaMw

Dr. David Chaillou is also a senior lecturer at the Université de Lille. He has been invited as a composer by various universities abroad, including the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Music). His music has been recorded by Gramola (Christophe Pantillon) and Preiser Records (Aron quartett) in Austria and by Urtext Digital Classics in the USA.

David Lipten…is a composer with a strong sense of direction, a fluid syntax and an inventive linear-abstract melodic gift. Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music , Feb. 2015. Axiom Brass, NYNME, and Donald Nally, cond., etc., have premiered his compositions. Recent premieres/performances include his “Waits & Measures” at Adelphi University, “Double Down” at Carnegie Hall, and “Double Clutch” in France. David’s “Tongue & Groove” for oboe/strings received 1st prize by Elevate Ensemble. His string quartet “Ictus” won 1st prize at the Portland Chamber Music Festival. The chorus “Volti” performed and recorded “Time’s Dream” in 2012 (American Prize 2013 finalist) and Harold Rosenbaum’s New York Virtuoso Singers recorded “A Widow’s Song” and “How To” in 2016 (American Prize 2018 2nd place). Other awards/commissions include those from the Fromm Foundation/Harvard, and the Jeffrey Jacobs Award. He has attended Yaddo, MacDowell, Aspen, etc. David holds a Ph.D. from Duke University.

In the early part of his career, Drake Mabry pursued a traditional classical music career performing as first oboe with symphony orchestras in three countries. He then switched to tenor saxophone, flute, and clarinet, playing primarily in jazz big bands and small ensembles. From 1976 he continued his educational studies with Master and Doctoral degrees in music composition. His alma maters include the Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, Rice University, and the University of California, San Diego. The principal teachers with whom he worked include Harold Gomberg, Alfred Genovese, Paul Cooper, John Cage, and Krzysztof Penderecki.

While he was teaching at Dartmouth College in 1984, a chance encounter in the music department hallway resulted in Mabry's traveling to France for a year to explore the musical worlds of Paris. After a short return to the U.S., he moved permanently to France in 1988, and today he lives and works in Nice, France. 

Two unexpected events in the 21st century presented him with his current focus of activities.

In 2003 he began developing a music in which silence is equally important with sound. The result is over 60 "Silent Duration" works, from solo instruments to full orchestra. Over 25 have been performed or recorded.

Then in 2011 he went to visit Istanbul, where he stayed several years and studied the Turkish ney and ebru painting. Although these Turkish studies of music and art were rooted in the historical style of each, he also explored and developed new concepts and techniques, combining them with the tradition.

The outcome of all of these life experiences is a constant interest in perpetual development, curiosity, and collaboration between who he is as a person and how this is expressed through his art forms. In addition to music and art, Mr. Mabry is also a published poet and photographer.

Conductor, composer, pianist and author, Frédéric Chaslin was born in Paris and educated at the Paris Conservatoire and the Salzburg Mozarteum.

He became assistant of Daniel Barenboim from 1987 to 1989 at the Orchestre de Paris and Bayreuth Festival, in 1989 he became Pierre Boulez’s assistant at the Ensemble Intercontemporain until 1991.

He became successively Music Director of the Opera in Rouen (1991-94), the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (1998-2001), the Mannheim Nationaltheater (2004-2007), the Santa Fe Opera (2009-2013) and for his second tenure, the Jerusalem Symphony (2011-2019)

Frédéric Chaslin divides his conducting activities equaly between operatic and symphonic performances. At the opera, he conducted New York Metropolitan (since 2002), Los Angeles Opera, Berlin Deutsche Oper, Munich Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as Leipzig, Dresden, Madrid, Bologna, Roma, Venice, Torino, Tokyo, Oslo, Copenhagen.

Frédéric Chaslin made his Austrian debuts in 1993 at the Bregenzer Festspiele for Nabucco (93, 94) and Fidelio (95, 96). Since 1997, he is a regular guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera where he conducted nearly 250 performances of 34 different tittles, as well as concert with the Vienna Philharmonic as a conductor and as a pianist (September 2001, Beethoven's 5th piano concerto. Paril 2018, Mahler's Symphony No. 5)

Major recent appearences were two new productions of Tales of Hoffman in Dresden and Copenhagen. In the symphonic repertoire, he’s conducted all major french orchestras (Orchestre de Paris, Orchestra National, Radio-France Philharmonic, Paris Opera Orchestra), the Milan Scala Philharmonic, Torino Rai, Manchester Hallé, London Philhramonia, London Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Spain National Orchestra, Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra (Lisbon), Israel Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic.He performed several piano concertos as a conductor/pianist (Ravel 2 piano concertos, Beethoven 5 piano concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic , Mozart K488 with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra)

As a composer, Frédéric Chaslin wrote 5 operas and over 50 melodies for soprano, mezzo and baritone. Excerpts of this operas have been sung and recorded by the most famous sopranos (Netrebko, Dessay, Peretyatko, and Damrau who recorded Chaslin's arias in her CD Damrau Forver, Warner). Symphonic compositions include the Gipsy Dance for violon and orchestra and a cello concerto. His most recent 11 Variations for Trombone and Orchestra spraid his name among the most famous trombone players of the world.

As an author, Frédéric Chaslin wrote an essay, Music in Every Sense published in Paris (France-Empire) and Germany (Böhlau) and available in English on Kindle and in october 2017 he released a novel based on the life of Gustav Mahler, Being Gustav Mahler, (Fayard, Paris) together with his own orchestration of Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 that has been premiered on Nov 30th, 2018, with the Zagreb Philharmonic. Starting May 3, 2019, his latest opera/musical Monte Cristo, commissionned by Placido Domingo for the Los Angeles opera, will be workshoped and performed in such places as L.A Opera, Valencia (Spain) Paris, Monte Carlo, Bologna, Lisbon and Vienna.

Jean-Pierre Vial is a French, self-made composer, born near Paris, France, in 1946.

He used to play the piano and the organ, and to compose several "juvenile" pieces for both instruments.

With a scientific background, however, he undertook to work for the software industry.

Over the last decade, after a career as a software designer, he has renewed his compositional activities and composed various pieces for solo instruments, small ensembles, or orchestras who posted a number of his worldwide premieres on YouTube.

He received composition awards for such works as his Præludium & fuga MMXVIII for organ, or his chorale Vor Johann Sebastian, tret ich hiermit for string orchestra.

After starting at the Épinal music school and then studying music at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Nancy, I entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where I obtained a first prize in chamber music and a first prize in trumpet. 

At the same time, I studied harmony and counterpoint with Noël Lancien at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Nancy.

I was accepted in the National Police Orchestra, as well as solo trumpet in the Concert Lamoureux Orchestra. Passionate about contemporary music, I also became the soloist of the ensembles Court-Circuit and 2e2m. 

My instrumental career has led me to play with French and foreign orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Ensemble Inter - Contemporain, the Ensemble l'itinéraire, the Köln Ensemble, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Birhmingam Orchestra, the Barcelona 216 Ensemble, the ICTUS Ensemble under the direction of prestigious conductors such as Georges Prêtre, Myung Wung Chung, Yutaka Sado, Christoph Von Donnany, Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Georg Solti, James Conlon, Jean Claude Casadessus, David Robertson, Jonathan Nott, Peter Czaba...

I have also been invited as a soloist in many festivals such as the Euro International Trumpet Guild, the summer academies of IRCAM, the festival Présences of Radio France, the festival for arts of Hong - Kong, Arena festival of Riga, the 38ème rugissants of Grenoble, Musica in Strasbourg, the media week of Tokyo, or at the BBC of Glasgow... I have performed the world premieres of numerous contemporary works, notably for solo trumpet and electronic device in collaboration with IRCAM; "Métallics" by Yan Maresz, "Dispersion fluide" by Jongwoo Yim, as well as "Crispy Grain" by Geoffroy Drouin as well as "Crispy Grain" by Geoffroy Drouin that he dedicated to me.

Paul Méfano also dedicated "Speed" for solo trumpet to me in 2004, a piece given as a world premiere at the Conservatoire supérieur de musique de Paris.

I have given numerous masterclasses, notably at Mac Gill University in Montreal, at the Hong Kong Festival for Arts and at the Tokyo Media Week.

Very busy as an instrumentalist, it is only since a few years that I devote more time to composition on the advice of composer friends. I have written pieces for orchestra, chamber orchestra, brass ensemble and a collection for children (Le bestiaire enchanté, Panic Circus) 2 pieces have been selected for the national competition of the CMF (L'ombre du vent - wind band - and Hot line - big band - ) Some of them have been recorded by the Belgian Guide Orchestra or the Gardiens de la paix de Paris. My works are published by HAFABRA and Universal Edition.

I currently teach at the Conservatoire du Centre de Paris

Nicolas Chevereau was born in Paris in 1989. He studied piano with Aldo Ciccolini before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he obtained three masters’ in vocal accompaniment (in the class of Anne Le Bozec), instrumental accompaniment (Jean-Frédéric Neuburger) and vocal direction (Erika Guiomar), as well as a musical analysis prize (Michaël Levinas). He has accompanied many singers and obtained several prestigious prizes in international competitions: SACEM Prize at the 9th chamber music competition in Lyon, Mélodie Prize at the 7th Nadia and Lili Boulanger competition, and the prize for best pianist at the 8th French melody competition in Toulouse chaired by Mady Mesplé. Chevereau has travelled extensively as an accompanist, conductor and concert performer, and has given numerous solo recitals, notably of the complete piano works of Déodat de Séverac and Naji Hakim. He frequently accompanies French song and lieder recitals as well as cabaret shows.

Born November 12, 1970 in Buenos Aires is a French-Argentine composer, conductor and pianist. He studied composition, conducting and piano with (a.o.) Gérard Grisey at the Conservatoire de Paris and Hans Zender at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt am Main. He wrote a dozen stage works, from pocket-operas to full orchestra operas, also orchestral works, concerti, chamber music, two secular cantatas and several song cycles. His works are regularly played in theaters and festivals such as Berlin Staatsoper, Hamburg Staatsoper, Oper Zürich, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Paris Opéra Comique, Bordeaux Opera, Berliner Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Mozarteum Salzburg, Buenos Aires Teatro Colón, Rome Opera, Spoleto Opera. In 2012, he was the portrayed composer of the Radio France Festival Présences, a retrospective of his works in fourteen concerts at the Théâtre du Châtelet.

Luciano Berio awarded him the 2000 Orpheus Prize for his chamber opera Midea produced at the Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto in 2000 and at the Rome Opera in 2001. In 2007 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Music Composition. He is the recipient of several prices like the Prix de la Musique Symphonique de la SACEM or the Prix George Enesco. He was a composer in residence at the Schloß Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany (invited by Hans Zender), at Herrenhaus-Edenkoben (invited by Peter Eötvös) and at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, Japan.

He conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orch. National d'Ile-de-France, the Bordeaux Opera, Ensemble Resonanz of Hamburg, Akademie für Alte Music Berlin and other ensembles. He was the Music Director of the Orchestre du Crous de Paris (1996–1998).

Born in 1956, Oswaldo González is a Venezuelan composer. From 1978 to 1980 he studied composition with Brian Kelly, John Lambert and Lawrence Casserley at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1980, Max Deutsch – who was student and later assistant of Arnold Schönberg – accepted him to attend composition and analysis courses at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Max Deutsch was decisive for his technical, musical and ethical development. He won several national composition prizes in Venezuela and conducted premiere performances of some of his works. He obtained scholarships from Venezuela and France. The Arditti string quartet premiered in 1992 'Willows', for soprano and string trio, based on a poem by James Joyce. 'Willows' was commissioned by the Royaumont Festival, France. Brian Ferneyhough invited him to speak about "Willows" at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1996. In 2010, he completed a PhD thesis in Arts and Sciences of the Art at Paris1 University, the Sorbonne.

Oswaldo González acquired the French citizenship in 2022.

Born in 1966, Peter Bannister studied at King's College Cambridge and in Paris with Naji Hakim (composition), Geneviève Ibanez and Michel Beroff (piano). His awards include the Prix André Caplet for musical composition from the Institut de France as well as prizes at international competitions in San Sebastian (composition), Chartres and Nuremberg (organ). From 2006 to 2013 he was associate artistic director to John Nelson and composer-in-association with SOLI DEO GLORIA Inc. (Chicago). He has written over 50 orchestral, choral, vocal and instrumental works, performed in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Notre-Dame de Paris, Vale of Glamorgan and Cheltenham Festivals, London Southbank Centre, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Klangbogen Wien, Settembre Musicale di Trieste, Ensemblia Mönchengladbach, Chartres, Frankfurt and Salzburg Cathedrals. Commissioners have included the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Rencontres Musicales de la Prée, Polish Ministry of Culture, Niederrheinische Sinfoniker... Resident in France since 1994, he currently lives in Cluny in Burgundy.

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Born in London but living in France since 1994, Peter Bannister received his initial training and introduction to professional music as a member of Trinity Boys' Choir in London in a variety of settings from opera productions to recording sessions for Monty Python. His teachers included David de Warrenne (piano), Helen Roy (voice) and John Shepherd (organ). Following his musical studies at King's College Cambridge, where he was a liturgical organist under the direction of Stephen Cleobury, he studied in Paris as a French government scholarship holder with Geneviève Ibanez, Michel Beroff (piano) and the composer/organist Naji Hakim. He was awarded prizes at the international competitions of Chartres, Nuremberg (organ) and San Sebastian (composition) as well as the André Caplet composition prize of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts. He worked for several years in the field of opera as a pianist/vocal coach/assistant conductor (Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence), collaborating with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, James Conlon and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

His catalogue comprises over fifty orchestral, choral, vocal and instrumental works, influenced by a wide range of sources from Hildegarde von Bingen or Baroque counterpoint to Olivier Messiaen, Polish aleatorism, neo-minimalism or acoustic/electric jazz. Commissions and creations in Europe and the United States have led to collaborations with Musique Sacrée de Notre-Dame de Paris, Rencontres Musicales de La Prée, Saarländischer Rundfunk, the Polish Ministry of Culture, Vale of Glamorgan/Cheltenham Festivals, Niederrheinische Sinfoniker, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Trinity College Choir, Cambridge, Cor Cantiamo, Illinois (CD Psallite Deo, 2016), Bourges and Chartres Cathedrals...) A meeting in 2000 with the American conductor John Nelson had a decisive impact on his development, leading to the composition of the works Nuages de Magellan and Pursued by Bronze Horsemen for the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in 2004 and 2006 respectively. From 2009 to 2013 he was Associate Artistic Director to John Nelson and Composer-in-Association for the Chicago-based sacred music organization SOLI DEO GLORIA Inc., for which he wrote a series of works including Hermosura de Dios for voice and orchestra, premiered by Hungarian mezzo-soprano Andrea Melath at the Zemplen Festival in 2010 and an Organ Concerto in memoriam Albert Schweitzer, premiered in Stuttgart Cathedral in 2013. As a conductor of his own work, he directed his oratorio Et iterum venturus est in memory of Olivier Messiaen (2008) in the closing concert of the Messiaen centenary cycle in the composer's church of La Trinité in Paris with the Ensemble Ochestral de Paris, Maîtrise de Paris and the French Army Choir. In 2013 he directed his Breathe in me at the Palais Omnisports Paris-Bercy and in 2016 his electro-acoustic Stabat Mater with the Warsaw-based Ensemble Hashtag at the Poznan International New Music festival in Poland. In 2017 his Miserere for voice and orchestra was premiered by Finnish soprano Tuuli Lindeberg and conductor Teemu Hämäläinen, organist Yves Castagnet and soloists from the Maîtrise de la Cathédrale Notre-Dame in Paris performed his Ave Maria in memoriam Marco Sofianopulo in a cycle of five concerts in Notre-Dame Cathedral and his 10-movement Ecumenical Magnificat for soloists, choir and orchestra was premiered in Heilbronn. Other recent projects have included a suite for bass clarinet and piano for New York clarinetist David Gould, premiered at the International ClarinetFest in Oostende, Belgium (July 2018), Angel of Lviv for the Ukrainian violinist/organist Ivan Dukhnych as well as the 75-minute song-cycle Lauda and Litany (2018-2021).

2024 saw the release of New Picture with David Gould, including Three songs without words after Franz Schubert and Pietà for bass clarinet and piano and the self-accompanied album of French songs et la nuit comme le jour illumine...featuring his Quatre Psaumes. Several recordings of his music are scheduled for 2025, including a series of new works for the jubilee year of the Sanctuaire de Paray-le-Monial.

As a pianist and organist he has performed in recital or as a soloist with orchestra (Rachmaninov, Handel, Beethoven, Chopin... ) in Europe and North America (BBC TV, France-Musiques, RAI, London Southbank Centre, Cambridge Festival, Vienna Stephansdom, Klangbogen Festival Wien, Heilbronner Meisterkonzerte, Pollini Auditorium Padova, Organnum Istriae (Croatia), Lviv National Opera, Settembre Musicale di Trieste, Cathedrals of Erfurt, Konstanz, Salzburg and Ulm, organ festivals in Arezzo, La Verna, Chartres, Gdansk-Oliwa, Ravenna, Montreal (International Congress of Organists. ..). He has also been a continuo player with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.

As an interdisciplinary researcher, Peter Bannister holds an M.Th in Systematic and Philosophical Theology from the University of Wales - his academic publications on music and theology include chapters in Messiaen the Theologian (Ashgate, 2009), Twentieth-Century Organ Music (Routledge, 2010), Contemporary Music and Spirituality (Routledge, 2013), Mystic Modern: the Music, Thought and Legacy of Charles Tournemire (Church Music Association of America, 2014) and James MacMillan Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He has given invited presentations at the Institut Catholique de Paris, the Universities of St Andrews, Boston and Gothenburg, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Cardiff BBC Hoddinott Hall, Théâtre du Châtelet... He currently lives in Cluny in Burgundy, where he teaches voice and plays the organ for the Taizé Community.

Born in Marseille (France) in 1957, Philippe MABBOUX is a composer, improviser pianist, arranger, choirmaster and French orchestra conductor. Losing his musical studies at the Conservatories of Aix-en-Provence and Nice (musical writing and organ) and at the University of Musicology of Aix-en-Provence, he had the chance to receive the precious teachings of great Masters such as Pierre VILLETTE, Grand Prix de Rome, for harmony and counterpoint, André BOUCOURECHLIEV for musical analysis and Jean COSTA and André SAORGIN for the organ. 

In 1981, he obtained the CAPES d'Education Musicale et Chant Choral, which allowed him to teach music in college and high school. It was in Saint-Raphaël and Fréjus (Var) that he spent most of his career, teaching the piano at the same time.

From the start of his teaching career, Philippe MABBOUX put his passion for musical writing at the service of his students. This is how the collection of pieces for recorder with orchestral accompaniment was born, which was published in 1987 by Jean-Marie FUZEAU (Collection IMPULSIONS ) and distributed in Europe and Canada.

In 1989, on the occasion of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution, François LEOTARD, then Minister of Culture and Mayor of Fréjus (VAR) commissioned Philippe MABBOUX to create a musical fresco for choir and orchestra which recounts the Revolution: "AU NOM DE LA LIBERTE…” This work will soon be published by Universal Edition.

In 1990, “ILIA…” a 14-minute concert piece for harp (or piano) was awarded at the DINAN International Celtic Harp Competition. A shortened version was published the same year by HARPOSPHERE (Paris) and recorded by harpist Claire LE FUR.

In 1992, he created an inter-establishment school orchestra, the Ensemble IMPULSIONS, for which he orchestrated more than 200 pieces in all styles, from classical to jazz, from pop music to film music. It will be for him a real laboratory of writing and musical experiences. With this orchestra, he will give hundreds of concerts in France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Holland... This orchestra, a musical educational experience unique in France at the time, will continue for more than 20 years, until 2016.

In 1999, Philippe MABBOUX received the commission for a work for the final of the International Trumpet Competition of Toulon in May 2000. This work, "TRIPTYQUE, for trumpet and organ" is published by BIM (Switzerland). It was recorded on CD by 3 trumpeters from three different countries and was used to illustrate a doctoral thesis on the musical language for the trumpet in the 20th century at Chopin University in Warsaw.

In 2000, Philippe Mabboux conducted the creation of “Il y a 2000 ans, Jesus de Nazareth…”, a large musical fresco on the life of Jesus for choir, orchestra, soloists and narrator in Saint-Raphaël.

Alongside his teaching activities, Philippe MABBOUX compose many pieces for his instrument, his confidant, the piano. Often worked on by his piano students, these pieces are regularly played in concert by the composer.

He also composes several pieces of chamber music currently being published by UE.

In 2022, Philippe Mabboux represents France at the WORLDVISION COMPOSERS CONTEST, an international composition competition, with his work "EVASIONS OCEANES", for symphony orchestra and harp, published by UE.

For 10 years, Philippe Mabboux was Chargé de Mission of the Rector of the Academy of Nice with the Orchester Régional de Cannes. In this context, pooling his experience as a composer and teacher, he organizes and presents educational concerts with the orchestra which will be attended by thousands of middle and high school students from all over the Academy.

Promoted to Professor « Agrégé » of Music Education in 2012, Philippe Mabboux is also a Knight in the Order of « Palmes Académiques ».

Composer, improviser, and performer, Reza Madani studied Persian classical music, including the Dastgah system and the Radif, at the National School of Music in Tehran. He also studied Western classical music at the same school in Iran and continued his studies in the United States, at the Chicago Conservatory of Music and Saint Vincent de Paul University in Chicago, where he studied composition with the American composers Raymond Wilding-White and Philip G. Winsor.

• Thomas Naszalyi is a French music composer who was born on November 25th, 1985, in La Roche-sur-Yon. His name, Naszalyi, has a Hungarian origin from his paternal grandfather who immigrated to France. At the age of 7, Thomas attended the public music school of the town, where he studied percussion and music theory.

• He began studying piano at the age of 13, and at the same time, wrote his first compositions, which were neo-classical or sometimes neo-romantic: He tried to write allegros, rondos, and nocturnes for the solo piano. Two years later, he studied musical writing, viola, and continued to learn to play the piano at the music Conservatory of La Roche-sur-Yon, whose symphonic orchestra performed a piece written by Thomas in 2003.

• Between 2003-2005, he discovered with much interest the worlds of Fashion and Electronic music, and in 2005, Thomas began to register his music works at the SACEM (PRO). In 2009, he was awarded a Bachelor in music and musicology at the University of Tours (France).

• Thomas also learned contemporary theatre at the university and took dance courses in Hip Hop and Modern Jazz in private schools. These helped him to develop his own idea of electronic dance music. In 2015, his first electronic album was released: Keep Rocking! After that, he continued to write EDM, and was constantly searching for new sounds and edgy styles.

• At the same time, he kept his taste for neo-classical and film music, and he wrote 10 tracks for glockenspiel and symphonic orchestra: this is the album Beautiful World. He loves the universe of Christmas and Fairy Tales adapted to the cinema, which is why he launched the label Enchanted World, where he has published several works of his.

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