Guy TOUVRON
Guy is a trumpeter Touvron classic, born February 15, 1950 in Vichy. His parents are not musicians, but his grandfather played the cornet. It starts at ten years studying music at Vichy with the horn. Touvron between Guy in 1967 at the Paris Conservatoire in the class of Maurice Andre, a year later he won first prize for cornet, and in 1969 the first prize of trumpet he won from 1971 to 1975, the three major international awards Munich, Prague and Geneva. Since then, Guy Touvron travels the world and is the favorite of many orchestras, including I Solisti Veneti, English Chamber Orchestra, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Lucerne Festival String, Prague Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Orchestras French (Toulouse, Country Loire, Normandy, Pays de Savoie, etc.), and many symphony orchestras in different countries who welcome. International soloist, he was invited by the biggest festivals in France and abroad: Festival Estival de Paris, Lille, Prades. Lanaudière (Canada), Ansbach (Germany) Pollença (Spain), Stressa (Italy), Salzburg (Austria), Montreux (Switzerland). He played in the biggest halls in the world, under the direction of conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin, Serge Baudo, Sylvain Cambreling, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Emmanuel Krivine, Michel Plasson, Claudio Scimone and others. More than 25 works have been written for him by contemporary composers: Karol Beffa, Charles Chaynes, Graciane Finzi, Anthony Girard, Jacques Loussier, Margoni Alain, Francois Rauber. He plays regularly in Asia (7 tours in Japan), United States, and has already recorded more than eighty discs. Today, his performances with organs and pianos, with Emmanuelle Huart for example, earned him applause always the best. Professor at the Conservatory of Madrid Street in Paris. Officer of the Order of Merit and Knight of Arts and Letters. Google machine translation: Guy TOUVRON's original bio |