Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music.
Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué was a French composer and music writer who developed an individual form of serialism which is displayed in a small output.
Philippe Manoury is a French composer.
Gilles Tremblay, was a Canadian composer from Quebec.
Pierre Mariétan is a Swiss composer.
Sophie Lacaze is a French composer.
Michel Paul Philippot was a French composer, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator.
Christophe Louis-Pascal Bertrand was a French composer of contemporary classical music.
Maximilien-Paul-Marie-Félix d'Ollone was a 20th-century French composer.
André Bon is a French composer. A student of Olivier Messiaen, he has composed over fifty works including several chamber operas. He is Professor of Composition at the Argenteuil Conservatory.
Suzanne Giraud is a French music educator and composer of contemporary music. Her works are marked by a predilection for percussion, voices and strings; they resonate with her artistic, poetic and architectural inspirations.
Guillaume Connesson is a French composer born in 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Jean-Pierre Leguay is a French organist, composer and improviser. He studied with André Marchal, Gaston Litaize, Rolande Falcinelli (organ), Simone Plé-Caussade (counterpoint), and Olivier Messiaen (composition), before serving as titular organist at Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris from 1961 to 1984. In 1985 he was named a titular organist at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, alongside Olivier Latry, Yves Devernay and Philippe Lefebvre. He held this position through the end of 2015, and is now titular organist emeritus.
Philippe Capdenat is a French composer and academic teacher. First a mining engineer, he started composing avant-garde music, but turned to chamber music, music for the stage and vocal music, using traditional instruments. He has been a teacher at several French universities and conservatories.
Nicolas Panagopoulos is a Greek composer of contemporary music. Born in Athens in 1954, he studied piano and music theory at the National Conservatory of Athens. He continued his studies with a scholarship from the French government at the National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance (CNSMDP).
Jacques Chailley was a French musicologist and composer.
Claude Samuel was a French music critic and radio personality.
Michel Merlet is a French composer and pedagogue.
Géry Moutier is a French classical pianist, music educator, and director.
Gérard Condé is a French composer and music critic.
