François Fayt

He studied composition with Eugene Kurtz, a professor at the University of Michigan and New York.

The meeting led to many commissions for incidental music, especially for the Théâtre du Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, and an opera, l'Arbre de ma (The May Tree), performed in 1993 in a staging by Pierre Constant, under the direction of Frédéric Chaslin.

Svetlin Roussev, principal soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Luisada commissioned Epilogue a piece for violin and piano.

In 2014 his opera Le Sang Noir, based on the novel of the same name was premiered in German (as Das Schwartze Blut) at Erfurt.

[2] Fayt has also composed sacred music, including a Requiem, a Gospel of John, and a Stabat Mater performed in July, 2009 at the Festival Saint Riquier'under the direction of Jean-Paul Penin.