- Gérard Buquet
Gérard Buquet (*
1954 ) is a tubist, conductor and composer, who was born in France in 1954.Life
He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and musicology at the
Strasbourg University . Composition studies withClaude Ballif andFranco Donatoni .As instrumentalist he has participated in numerous premiers, and has appeared regularly as a soloist at all leading festivals for contemporary music. He has frequently played with the Orchestre de Paris, the
Orchestre National de France , and the Orchestre Philharminique de Radio France, as well as various jazz groups.From
1976 to2001 he was the tuba player of the ‘Ensemble Intercontemporain ’.During this time he worked on several research projects at the Ircam Centre. He has written a book on the ‘contemporary tuba’ (funded by the french cultural ministry). His teaching is inspired by coordination and breathing techniques developd by
Jacques Dropsy . Gérard Buquet taught chamber music at the CNSM in Paris from 1997 to 1999, and then obtained the poste as tuba professor there in1999 . In 1999 the television channel ‘Mezzo ’ devoted a portrait film to his work.In
2000 he became professor (director of the ‘Ensemble für Neue Musik’) at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe, Germany. Since2003 he also teaches contemporary music for the DE diploma at the ‘Cefedem’ in Dijon.In October
2007 he conducted « les Etudes d’après Séraphin » by W. Rihm, for the tenth anniversary of the ZKM, with the Ensemble für Neue Musik of the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, and the Ballet of the Staatstheater of Karlsruhe. In July 2008 he conducted a concert devoted to the harp repertoire at theZKM (Ensemble für Neue Musik Karlsruhe, soloist : Frédérique Cambreling). He is currently working on a composition for 6 voices and 6 instruments, which will be premiered in Heidelberg in Winter 2008 by the ‘Klangforum and la Scola Cantorum’ of Heidelberg, and a composition for saxophone and electronics (commissioned by Ircam) which will receive its first performance in Paris the 6th November 2009, interpreted by Marcus Weiss.Compositions (Excerpts)
*2006: "Surimpressions“
*2005: "Les danses du temps“
*2001: "Adverb“
*1997: "Zwischen“Trivia
Gérard Buquet owns the only ever built contrabass
Trombone with two bells.Weblinks
* [http://www.gerardbuquet.de Official Website of Gérard Buquet]
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