François Bousch

François BOUSCH, born in Paris in 1946. Studied music at the Paris Conservatory under Jean-Pierre Guézec, Claude Ballif, Betsy Jolas and Olivier Messiaen (First Composition Prize).

Conducting under Charles Brück. Contacts with Stockhausen and Berio

Resident at the Villa Medicis in Rome from 1974 to 1976. Numerous contacts with Scelsi.

Awarded the SACEM Georges Enesco Prize for his works in 1981.

Artistic director of the Ensemble Instrumental de Basse Normandie (1982-1983)

and Ensemble SINE QUA NON (1990-1996).

Founder and director of the National School of Music and Dance of EVRY (1979-1999)

Director of the CEFEDEM de Lorraine (Superior Training Center for teachers of Music) (2000-2011)

He received the distinction of « Chevalier des Arts et Lettres » by the French Minister for the Culture (1990)

Chairman of ISCM-French section (1996-2001), vice-chairman (2001-2007).

A member of l’Itinéraire since its foundation in 1973, he has performed regularly with its “Ensemble d’Instruments Électroniques” (Electric guitar and electronic keyboards). As a composer and player he has worked on expanding the relation between instruments and electronic means. Master classes at the IRCAM in 1980 and 1981 and at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1988. François BOUSCH has lectured and has been given numerous commissions.

His works combine classical means with up-to-date technology (orchestra with or without soloists, instrumental ensemble or chamber music, soloists, electronics). His compositions have been performed in numerous festivals in France and abroad and have been broadcast in many countries.

Sculpting sound matter, probing it, listening to it in its intimacy, such is the artistic approach proposed by François BOUSCH.

His music listening to the Universe, written and/or improvised, suggests a dreamlike poetry made of shadows, glimmers and fringes, fleeting and moving impressions, silences and emotions.