Colette Mourey (born 1954) is a French classical guitarist, music educator, musicologist and composer.
Born in Kenitra (Morocco), Mourey studied musicology at the Sorbonne under Edith Weber [1] and passed the agrégation. First a classical guitarist and student of Uruguayan guitarist Oscar Cacères, [2] she is also a pianist.
As a teacher, she teaches writing, aesthetics and music didactics at the Université de Franche-Comté and the École supérieure du professorat et de l'éducation . She is also involved with the "Passeurs d'Art" association [3] for the creation of free children's orchestras.
For her research, she starts from works on the atonal music of her teacher Julien Falk [4] to develop a new musical system called "hypertonality". This is based on spiral scales (in amplitudes higher than the octave), radically transforming atonal counterpoint techniques. This allows the reintroduction of "natural consonances" within a contemporary language, which contributes to bringing contemporary music closer to the "general public". [5]
She is the author of numerous books on musicology and teaching.
As a composer, she is the author of more than 1000 works (published at the éditions Bergmann, [6] Reift Marcophon, [7] Soldano, [8] Delatour, [9] and Profs editions. [10] [11] In 2012, she won the First Prize of the International Competition for Instrumentalists and Composers "Music and Earth" in Sofia (Bulgaria). [12] From 2012 to 2014, she has been awarded by the IBLA Foundation for her works Estudios Festivos; Homenaje a Manuel Ponce (guitar) in 2012, [13] Variations In Memoriam (guitar) in 2013, [14] and Bucoliques (harpsichord) in 2014 [15]
Research books
Teaching books
Novels
Scores series (partial list)
The list below is not exhaustive