Gilles Boizard

Gilles Boizard (born August 1, 1933 in Juniville , Ardennes department , † May 5, 1987 in Paris ) was a French composer.

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Boizard, who grew up in a small village in the Ardennes, had piano lessons before studying with Yves Nat at the Conservatoire de Paris . After a second prize in 1959, he won the Premier Grand Prix in 1960 with the Cantate du Printemps in the competition for the Prix ​​de Rome .

After the stay at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1961 to 1964, which was associated with the award , he returned to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he worked as a professor of solfège . A few years later he also became director of the competitions of the Union Française des Artistes et Musiciens (UFAM). He also performed as a concert pianist and accompanist.

Boizard composed a number of chamber music works, as well as piano arrangements for the competitions of the UCAM and music educational works.

Works

• Berceuse en carillon for piano, 1965
• Partita: Prélude, Aria, Interlude, Toccata for piano, 1965
• Offrande d'Automne for piano, 1966
• Diptyque "Aux statues de Bomarzo" for bass trombone and piano, 1967
• Par le sentier bleu for piano, 1968
• Musette for piano, 1969
• Deux Esquisses. A l'estompe. A la pointe sèche for harp, 1969
• Fantaisie for bassoon and piano, 1971
• Onze Leçons de solfège, avec accompagnement de piano , 2 volumes, 1972
• Onze Leçons de solfège, sans accompagnement de piano , 2 volumes, 1972
• Accordéondes for accordion, 1973
• Ballad for double bass and piano, 1977