Pascal Gallois (born 1959) is a French bassoonist, conductor and music teacher, specialising in

contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included se ...

Life

Born in

Linselles Linselles (; nl, Linsele; pcd, Linséles) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille. On 17 August 1793, during the War of the First Coalition, it was the site of the Battle of Lin ...

near

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord ...

, Gallois studied with

Maurice Allard Maurice Allard (January 2, 1922 – September 14, 1988) was a Canadian politician, as well as a law professor and a lawyer. He was elected in 1958 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party representing the riding of Sherbrooke. He ran ...

at the

École Normale de Musique de Paris The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in Paris, Île-de-France, France. At the time of the school's foundation in 1919 by Auguste Mangeot, Alfred Cortot. The term ''école normale'' (En ...

. Since 1981, he has been a member of the

ensemble intercontemporain The Ensemble intercontemporain (EIC) is a French music ensemble, based in Paris, that is dedicated to contemporary music. Pierre Boulez founded the EIC in 1976 for this purpose, the first permanent organization of its type in the world. Organi ...

, soloist, alongside

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. He brings to the ensemble contemporary works for bassoon, both original and French

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s, as ''

In Freundschaft ''In Freundschaft'' (In friendship) is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, number 46 in his catalogue of works. It is a serial composition for a solo instrument, first for clarinet, and later arranged by the composer for many other instrumen ...

'' by Karlheinz Stockhausen (recorded in 1984), and ''Sequenza XII'' by

Luciano Berio Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled '' Sequenza''), and for his pioneering wo ...

, in 1995. As a conductor, he was at the head, among other things, of the . The development of the contemporary bassoon repertoire is one of his concerns. Composers such as György Kurtag,

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, Philippe Fénelon, Brice Pauset,

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and

Mark Andre Mark Andre (born 10 May 1964) is a French composer living in Germany. He was known as "Marc André," his birth name, until 2007, when he formally revised the spelling. He lives in Berlin. Andre's compositions ''durch'' (2006), ''...auf... III'' (2 ...

write pieces for him which he creates and records. From 1994 to 2000, he was professor at the Paris Conservatory and from 2001 to 2007 at the

Zurich University of the Arts Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK, german: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) has approximately 2,500 students, which makes it the largest arts university in Switzerland. The university was established in 2007, following the merger between Zurich ...

. He is also the author of ''Die Spieltechnik des Fagotts'' (''The Bassoon Playing Technique''), devoted to new playing techniques for bassoonists and composers. Since 2002, he has been teaching at the International Music Institute of

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. Gallois is the father of the dancer and choreographer , and the brother of flautist Patrick Gallois.

Discography

* ''Dialogues'', with works by

, György Kurtag, . (

Stradivarius A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries. They are ...

) * ''Voyages'', with works by

, Philippe Schoeller. (Stradivarius) * ''# 3'', with works by

Dai Fujikura Dai Fujikura ( ja, 藤倉大 ''Fujikura Dai''; born 27 April 1977) is a Japanese-born composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Dai Fujikura was born in 1977 in Osaka, Japan. He moved to London when he was 15 to study at Dover Coll ...

Bruno Mantovani Bruno Mantovani (born 8 October 1974) is a French composer. He has been awarded first prizes from the Conservatoire de Paris which he joined in 1993. His work has been commissioned by the French government as well as other organizations. In Sept ...

. (Stradivarius)

Publication

* ''Die Spieltechnik des Fagotts (La technique de jeu du basson)''. (book with CD, Bärenreiter-Verlag)

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallois, Pascal 1958 births Living people École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni Academic staff of the École Normale de Musique de Paris People from Nord (French department) French classical bassoonists French music educators French conductors (music)