Professor emeritus of saxophone at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and of orchestration at the Conservatory of Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg).
Alain Crépin has conducted the Royal Band of the Air Force and has been artistic director of the Belgian Defense Orchestras.
Alain Crépin has conducted the Royal Band of the Air Force and has been artistic director of the Belgian Defense Orchestras.
He received his musical training at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent where he graduated as a pianist and viola player. At the same time he finished the theoretical department with a 1st Prize for Composition. In the beginning of his professional career he mainly worked as an instrumentalist in various chamber music ensembles.
Alexis Ciesla studied music in Lyons, Geneva and Paris, where he secured first prizes in clarinet and bass clarinet in 1991.
Italian-born French composer during the period of transition from Classicism to Romanticism; he contributed to the development of French opera (Lodoïska; Faniska; les 2 Journées; Pygmalion) and was also a master of sacred music (Requiem; Messe “de Chimay”; Messe pour le Sacre de Charles X; Messe pour le Sacre de Louis XVIII; Motets).
Violist with the Orchestre National de Lorraine, Alain Celo also trained in composition with Claude Lefebvre, then with François Narboni. He also followed a complete course in composition at the Metz CNR (harmony, counterpoint, fugue and orchestration).
He received commissions from such ensembles as Souffle d’Ebène, Stravinsky and United Instruments of Lucilin, and from the conseil général of Moselle.
has written an Off-Broadway musical, a concertino for saxophone, a sonata for jazz clarinet, a cantata based on Jame Joyce’s Giacomo Joyce, and a number of works for the Washington Street Trio (clarinet, bassoon and piano).
He attended Harvard on a Leonard Bernstein scholarship, studied piano and composition with Harold Zabrack, and taught for many years at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Professor at the Conservatoire National de Région de Versailles, Cor Solo of the Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, founder of the Octuor de Paris, international concertist, grand prix du disque, Daniel BOURGUE addressed all genres of music. His great competence naturally led him to enrich the repertoire with pedagogical works and concert pieces.
Eric BOURDET rstudied at music conservatories in Amiens and the 10th arrondissement of Paris. He holds state
diplomas as a tuba teacher and conductor of instrumental ensembles.
Jean Pierre BOUCHARD is both hornist of the Orchestra of the Republican Guard and an epicurean at heart.
In the course of his various activities, he has met many of the main protagonists of the French musical world, including François CHRISTIN, Jacques DELEPLANCQUE and Patrice PETITDIDIER.
