Born in Ussel (Corrèze), Lagorce was admitted in September 1951 to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he met Maurice André.
Lagorce was a member of the brass quintet Ars Nova founded in 1964 by Georges Barboteu (French horn) with Bernard Jeannoutot[1] (trumpet), Camille Verdier[2] (trombone) and Elie Raynaud[3] (tuba).
Lagorce was responsible for several publications and methods for learning the trumpet that are widely used today in conservatories and music schools.
He is present in many orchestral and concertos pieces alongside Maurice André, with Jean-François Paillard's chamber orchestra.
Several of these recordings have won the Grand Prix du Disque and remain a reference: the suites of J S Bach, Handel's Water Music, Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Trumpets.