IRCAM is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organisationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The extension of the building was designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Much of the institute is located underground, beneath the fountain to the east of the buildings.
Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – mélodies – of which he wrote more than 100.
Pierre Georges Albert François Henry was a French composer and pioneer of musique concrète.
Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur was a Belgian classical composer, teacher, and music theorist.
Kiril Džajkovski (Djaikovski), – often credited as simply Kiril – is an internationally acclaimed Macedonian electronic musician and music composer. He is one of the most respected electronic artists from the Eastern European region and one of the pioneer producers to introduce Balkan ethnic sounds to the modern electronic music production. Kiril is also an accomplished composer of film and theatre music.
Jean-Claude Éloy is a French composer of instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music.
Åke Parmerud is a Swedish composer, musician, and multimedia artist noted for his acoustic and electronic works, which have been performed mostly in Europe, Mexico, and Canada. He is also noted for the design of stage and acoustics as well as interactive media and software. He has received recognition for his work from a number of festivals in Europe and has won two Swedish Grammis awards. He has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 1998.
Kasper T. Toeplitz is a French composer and musician of Polish origin, born in 1960. He lives in Paris.
Dominique Dalcan is a French electronic musician and film composer. He is the winner of the "victoires de la musique" in 2018 in the category "electronic album".
Michael Obst is a German composer and pianist.
Jean-Baptiste Lully was an Italian naturalized French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France and became a French subject in 1661. He was a close friend of the playwright Molière, with whom he collaborated on numerous comédie-ballets, including L'Amour médecin, George Dandin ou le Mari confondu, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Psyché and his best known work, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.
Nicolas Vérin is a French composer and professor of music. His many influences, from jazz to electronics, from American to French music, give him an unusual style, apart from the main trends of French contemporary music, combining energy and subtleness.
Emmanuel Séjourné is a French composer and percussionist, and head of percussion at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. His music is influenced by Western classical music and by popular music.
Gréco Casadesus is a French composer who composes film scores. Born in Paris to a large family of artists, he has composed over a hundred musical creations for television, cinema, performances, and theatre.
Henry Fourès is a French historian of music and musician.
Gérard Condé is a French composer and music critic.
Denis Levaillant is a French composer, pianist and writer based in Paris, France. He has orchestrated more than twenty musical shows including La Petite Danseuse de Degas and composed more than 120 musical works worldwide. Levaillant has been recognized for his improvisation and orchestration work and his ability to synthesize in his art several antagonistic genres such as composition/improvisation, classical/jazz, classical/popular and acoustic/electro.
Étienne Bertrand Weill (1919-2001) was a French photographer. His primary works were abstract Metaforms.
Samuel Sené is a theatre director, musical director, pianist and French conductor.
