Poché was born the son of an Austrian father in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a centre of traditional Arabic music, where he spent most of his life.
During this time he also worked for two years as a music critic for the Lebanese newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour.
[2][1] For several of his numerous editions of Near Eastern music, he was awarded the French Charles-Cros prize.
Historically spread across communities in Antioch, Tur 'Abdin, Urfa, Mardin in modern Turkey, as well as in Aleppo and Qamishli in modern Syria, this Oriental Orthodox church uses the Syriac language, an Aramaic historical language similar to that spoken by Jesus Christ and the Apostles.
Another of his radio programmes was broadcast on France Vivace called Sanza, and subsequently renamed Zambra.