Gérard Buquet

He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and musicology at the Strasbourg University.

As instrumentalist he has participated in numerous premiers, and has appeared regularly as a soloist at all leading festivals for contemporary music.

Gérard Buquet taught chamber music at the CNSM in Paris from 1997 to 1999, and then obtained the poste as tuba professor there in 1999.

In July 2008 he conducted a concert devoted to the harp repertoire at the ZKM (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 6 November 2009, interpreted by Marcus Weiss.