Didier Marc Garin

Born in 1963 in Dinan, France
Scientific Baccalauréat
Linguistic and musical studies in France and Germany.
Composition studies with Michel FUSTE-LAMBEZAT (Bordeaux), Klaus HUBER and Emmanuel NUNES (Freiburg-im-Breisgau).
Musical academies: choir and orchestra conducting, composition. Rencontres franco-allemande pour la jeunesse (1984 et 1986), Centre Acanthes (MESSIAEN, 1987), I.R.C.A.M (DONATONI, 1988), Sommer Komposition Kursen in Darmstadt (1984 et 1988), GAUDEAMUS (1993), International music forum in Kiev (1994).
Research scolarship in the Casa de Velázquez – Madrid – for the paper: « Silence and rupture in the gitano-andalousian music » (Revista de Flamencología n° 7, Universidad de Cádiz).
Teacher in different public schools and in music schools in France and abroad.
Administrator of ensemble Proxima Centauri , Bordeaux (1998-2002).
Responsable for pedagogy in the École Internationale de Musique et de Danse in Casablanca and Rabat – Maroc (2003-2005).
Choirs conductor in Gironde.
Musicological studies in India, Spain, Maroc, Senegal and Gambia)
Traduction of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Éditions de la Différence 2003, republication 2009)
Participation in the film « Dante de l’enfer au paradis » de Thierry Thomas, coproduction ARTE France, Ina 2006
Since 1991, composition of an opera about the Commedia by Dante Alighieri.
April 2007: founding of temp’óra project