Henri-Claude Fantapié

He was a pupil of Marc-Cesar Scotto, Eugène Bigot, Igor Markevitch for conducting, and Henri Dutilleux for composition.

[citation needed] Fantapié studied clarinet, harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Nice with Eugène Gosselin and René Saorgin, and conducting (for which he won first prize in 1958), chamber music and song at the Académie de musique Rainier III of Monaco (with Marc-César Scotto, Marcel Gonzalès and Lucien Marzo).

In Paris, he studied conducting with Eugène Bigot, composition with Henri Dutilleux and musicology with Jacques Chailley.

He won the 1960 Concours International des Jeunes chefs d'orchestre de Besançon, for both conducting and composition.

From 1964-1972, he was Manager of the Union of French conductors and from 1975 was Professor of conducting at the Centre Polyphonique de Paris, and then in Seine-Saint-Denis from 1980.