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Jean-Charles François studied at the CNSMD in Paris. He studied composition with the Australian composer and conductor Keith Humble. Between 1962 and 1969, he participated as a soloist to numerous concerts of contemporary music in Paris and throughout Europe (Domaine musical, Ensemble Ars Nova, Ensemble Musique Vivante, SüdWestfunk, Hessische Rundfunk, West Deutsche Rundfunk, Palermo Festival, Venise Festival, Zagreb Festival, BBC London, Sender Freies Berlin, etc.). Between 1965 and 1969, he was the co-director of the Centre de Musique with Giuseppe Englert and Keith Humble, at the American Center in Paris. In 1969, he moved to Australia and was appointed principal Percussion at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and as percussion teacher at the University of Melbourne. He returned to Paris in 1972 as Musical Director of the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale and lecturer at Paris VIII University. In September 1972, he went to the University of California San Diego with a fellowship from the Rockfeller Foundation. In 1973 he was appointed on the music faculty at UCSD. He became director of the Center for Music Experiment (1979-1982) and later chairman of the UCSD Music Department (1982-1985). In 1975 he founded the experimental improvisation group KIVA with the trombonist John Silber. The group KIVA gave many concerts in the United States, Mexico, Europe and Australia until 1991. His composition are published by Smith Publications, Baltimore. He has published numerous research articles on the subject of timbre and improvisation in Musique en Jeu (Paris), La Revue Esthétique (Paris), Traverses (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Perspectives of New Music (USA) et Percussive Notes Research Edition (USA), Open Spac (USA) and Enseigner la Musique (Lyon, France). His book Percussion et musique contemporaine has been published by the Editions Klincksieck (Paris) in 1991. En 1994 he obtained his Doctorate at the University Paris VIII (title of the thesis : « The Creative Performer »). In 1990, he was appointed by the French Ministry of Culture, Director of the CEFEDEM Rhône-Alpes, a center devoted to the training of future music school’s teachers. In 1992, he joined the contemporary music ensemble Aleph, Paris. This ensemble play a season’s concert at the Théâtre Dunois in Paris since 1990, and has toured extensively (New York, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Beijing, Shangaï, Dresden, Berlin, Amsterdam Gaudeamus Festival, Festival Manca in Nice, Musiques en Scène, Lyon, Bratislava, Lubjana, Vienna, Alicante, Madrid, Bath, London, Finland, Torino, Milano, Caracas, Venezuela, etc.). He is a member of PFL Traject. |
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