Franco-Argentine guitarist and composer, Dr. Martín ACKERMAN, also carries out an intense activity as researcher and pedagogue. Professor of artistic education at the Grand Chalon Conservatory and professor at the Burgundy Higher School of Music, he obtained Cum Laude mention for the International Doctorate in Education at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2017. His field of research was conducted at the Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris (CNSMDP).
The musical career of Bruno-Michel Abati is easily associated with the words melting pots. Born in Dakar, Senegal, to a Cape Verdean mother and a Martinican father, it was in Nîmes (Gard) that he took his first steps in music.
A successive pupil of Guy-Jean Maggio, René Bartoli and Roland Dyens, he has always associated the study of his instrument with
composition.
He founded the Musyriade Quartet
Between 1957 and 1963, she worked as press officer for the Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud Competition. In 1961 she was awarded the Grand Prix de la Mélodie Française by the Union Nationale des Arts.
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.
Born in 1959 in Long Island, near New York, Anthony Girard was formes in the National Supérieur Conservatory of Paris where he acquired from 1980 till 1986 five first price. His catalog includes nowadays hundred and fifty compositions : works for choir and orchestra (Crucifix of light), for symphony orchestra (The lost souls), for chamber orchestra (as a morning star), for instrumental ensemble (The distant voice of Eurydice) and numerous compositions of vocal and instrumental chamber music.
