Upon finishing his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and the Musikhochschule in Freiburg am Breisgau, Henri-Michel Garzia was appointed Principal Trombone of Sinfonieorchester Basel (Switzerland). He is a prizewinner of the “Città di Porcia” International Trombone Competition in Italy.
Jean-Charles Gandrille, born in 1982, is a composer and organist. He studied music at the CNSM in Paris, where he won six prizes.
Meeting Jean-Louis Florentz and Thierry Escaich left a deep impression on him, and both of them encouraged him to continue composing. He also openly acknowledges his admiration for Arvo Pärt and the accessibility of his music.
Philippe Gaillard (born in 1958) is a musician of many facets. He studied the piano in several music conservatories. He also honed his skills on the bassoon playing with Maurice Allard and Gilbert Audin. Meanwhile, he approached improvised music with François Jeanneau at the Paris CNSM and turned to composition and orchestration at Paris' École Normale de Musique (training college for music teachers).
Born on June 3rd, 1941 in Sélestat.
Studied organ at the Strasbourg Conservatory under Michel Chapuis, then at Saarbrücken’s Musikhochschule. From 1982 to 2001, he was director of the Diocesan Organ School in Alsace.
Was a member of Salzburg’s ISM-International Stiftung Mozarteum.
In 2012, he published the book «Mozart in Strasbourg» (Do Bentzinger publishing)
Has been titular organist of Illkich’s Saint-Symphorien parish since 1968.
Simon Fournier, born in 1973, studied music at the music academies of Angers and Paris. As a trum-
peter, he was unanimously awarded a first prize and a development award then studied at the Département de Préparation aux Métiers d’Orchestre.
Reveals an artistic versatility as a choir conductor, composer, pianist and teacher. He has become internationally renowned as director of the Flemish Radio Choir, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus (London), the World Youth Choir and the Ghent Madrigal Choir. Leading chamber and radio choirs throughout Europe and Latin America often invite him to be a guest-conductor.
Jean-Jacques FIMBEL enlarged is knowledge with Antonio Membrado, Betho Davezac (with whom he studies the repertoire of the baroque and the romantic guitar as well the one of the vihuela) and Alberto Ponce at the Ecole Normale de Paris, where he got degrees in history of music, analyst and composition and guitar technique.
Born in Saint-Dizier (France) in 1971, Dominique Delahoche studied trombone at Lyon’s CNSM under Michel Becquet.
He holds four international performing prizes. He studied composition under Ivan Fedele and Mark André.
He has also collaborated closely with Hugues Dufourt and during the 2008 and 2009 sessions of the Acanthes academy with Salvatore Sciarrino and Bruno Mantovani. He holds composition degrees from the Strasbourg conservatory (2009) and Rome’s Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia (2011).
René de Boisdeffre was born April 3rd 1838 in Vesoul, France. He was a passionate composer, studied with Charles Wagner and later Auguste Barbereau.
Carl Czerny (1791-1857). Austrian composer and pianist. A pupil of Hummel, Salieri and Beethoven, his father detected in him a gift for teaching. He began teaching at age 15, and was soon in great demand. Among his pupils were Queen Victoria or Franz Liszt, whom he introduced to Beethoven.
