1- What is your background Mr. Serge Di Mosole as a musician?
I started the guitar at the age of 7 at the national conservatory of the Toulouse region in the class of Master Marc Franceries who created the first guitar class in France and who was the disciple of the great Ida Presti who formed the famous duo "Lagoya- Presty”. Then two years later I followed the teaching of Paul Ferret until obtaining a first prize in solo guitar and a first prize in chamber music.
In order to perfect my art I followed the courses of the Cuban Master Manuel Barrueco and received from his hands the international diploma of interpretation.
In parallel with teaching, I gave concerts as a soloist, as a duo and with an orchestra. The composition has always been very present in my life and led me to write (but not for guitar) for fr3 the program "roots and wings" Thalassa, for a dozen reports.
2- Can you describe your style as a composer? What are your musical inspirations and influences?
My first compositions for guitar date back to 1990, some are recorded on my first album devoted to the Latin American repertoire of 1994, my influences are diverse, Latin America of course, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela, Argentina, artists such as Baden Powell, Lauro, Lobos, Barrios, Gismonti, Bonfa, Vinicius de moraes, Chico Buarque, Jobim, Jazz with Coltrane, Hancock, Chic Correa, al Jarreau, I don't want to forget anyone but the list is too long for all the nominees, but also the great classical composers like Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Sor who gave our instrument its letters of nobility, Giuliani, Tarrega, Llobet, etc.
My music has been built around all these rich influences.
Today, my approach is also to bring new pieces to our repertoire, some of which are dedicated to friends of the profession such as Arnaud Dumond, Raul Maldonado, Jorge Cardoso, Isabelle Presti, Sergio and Odair Assad, Eric Franceries, the duo Polish Walicki-Popiolek (Polish piano-guitar duo) who recorded one of my pieces “Esperanza”, the Themis duo (Florence Creugny-Alexandre Bernoud).
My compositions, regularly cited in "Classical guitar magazine" and "classical guitar magazine", have been published since 2019 by the French publisher IMD « International Music Diffusion ».
3- Tell us about your latest work Choro N° What year did you write it?
My piece Chroro n°1, dedicated to Jean-Jacques Fimbel Director of collection at IMD, is as he writes so rightly influenced - in all modesty - by Brazil and its illustrious representative Heitor-Villa-Lobos. This piece was composed in 2018.
