Arnaud Dumond is a French classical guitarist, composer and teacher.
After having started in music as a self-taught musician, he undertook and completed higher education in classical guitar at the École Normale de Musique de Paris under the direction of Alberto Ponce. He attended the summer internships by Emilio Pujol and Narciso Yepes in Spain, John Williams in England, then benefited from the advice of Joseph Urshalmi whom he met on tour in Israel.
He attended the analysis classes of Jean-Pierre Guézec, Maurice Ohana and Nadia Boulanger, who invited him to come and play at the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau, then to teach there under the direction of Narcís Bonet .
Michel Chion is a French film theorist and composer of experimental music.
Alberto Ponce was a Spanish classical guitarist and teacher who from 1962 lived and taught in France.
Pierre Georges Albert François Henry was a French composer known for his significant contributions to musique concrète.
Michel Paul Philippot was a French composer, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator.
Stéphane de Gérando is a French composer, conductor, multimedia artist, and researcher.
A musical instrument of the chordophone family, the lyre-guitar was a type of guitar shaped to look like a lyre, popular as a fad-instrument in the late 1800s. It had six single courses, with a fretboard located between two curved arms recalling the shape of the ancient Greek kithara. It was tuned and played like the conventional guitar.
Laurent Petitgirard is a French classical composer and conductor.
Rafael Andia is a French classical guitarist.
Marc Sevenants, better known by the pseudonym of Marc Danval, was a Belgian journalist, author, artist and columnist, who wrote about Belgian food and jazz. In his early career he also worked as an actor.
Jérôme Dorival is a French clarinetist, composer and musicologist.
Éric Humbertclaude is a French musician, organist, contemporary composer, writer and essayist, musicologist, researcher specializing in contemporary music and pipe organ music.
Norbert Stéphane Jean-Marie Dufourcq was a French organist, music educator, musicologist and musicographer.
Valérie SoudèresnéeBriggs, also known in her early days as Valerie Hamilton, was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue.
Alexis Galpérine is a French classical violinist.
Éric Pénicaud is a French classical composer, classical guitarist and improviser.
Jean-Maurice Mourat is a classical music guitarist, composer and former director of musical conservatories. He writes music for guitar, as well as for flute and piano. He has written a number of transcriptions for flute and guitar. His musical compositions are published by six French publishers and one Canadian publisher. He is also the author of a number of pedagogical works on guitar playing.
Bertrand Dermoncourt is a French journalist, publisher and author of books on music, including classical music. He started in rock fanzines during the 1980s. In 1998, he co-founded the magazine Classica of which he was from the beginning Editorial Director Musical critic of the weekly l'Express, he also directs a collection of biographies of composers published by Actes Sud He is also a member of the editorial board of the collection "Bouquins" at Éditions Robert Laffont and member of the Prix Pelléas jury.
Lucien Thévet was a twentieth-century French horn player and teacher in France.
Karol Beffa, born on 27 October 1973 in Paris, is a French and Swiss composer and pianist.
Pierre-André Boutang was a French documentary filmmaker, producer and director. He was one of the leaders of the Franco-German channel Arte as well as of La Sept previously.