Jean-Claude Amiot

Jean-Claude Amiot (born October 18, 1939 in Vichy , France ) is a French composer , music teacher and conductor .

Life

At the age of seven he received his first violin music lessons at the Le Mans Conservatory . He later took private piano lessons . In 1955 he began his studies at the Conservatory of Lyon in professional clarinet and harmony and later fugue and counterpoint with César Geoffray . After completing these subjects, he studied conducting at the Scola Cantorum in Paris with Edmond Pendelton from 1963 until 1963.

In 1964 he took part in the Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting competition in New York . In 1968 he became director of the Mâcon Conservatory ; a year later also conductor of the Orchester d'Harmonie de Mâcon . He was also the conductor of the chamber orchestra of the Mâcon National School of Music. He later became director of the Conservatoire Emmanuel Chabrier in Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne), France and conductor of the l'orchestre du Conservatoire National de Région . He is the guest conductor of the University of Aberdeen Symphony Orchestra

Works

Works for orchestra

• 1979 Mon Premier Concert
• 1981 Sun is working in the Sky
• Sussex saraband: pour saxophone alto et orchester à cordes , Alphonse Leduc - Editions Musicales, Paris
• Celtic suite: pour clarinette si b et orchester à cordes , Alphonse Leduc - Editions Musicales, Paris

Works for wind orchestra

• Messager des Etoiles
• Mon Troisième concert
• Vaudou - en souvenir du Bénin -

Stage works

• Voleur de Lune Opera in 3 acts

Chamber music

• Melpomene for violoncello and piano

Web link

• Biographical data and photo. Center de documentation de la musique contemporaine , accessed on August 28, 2008 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sussex saraband in the catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved August 28, 2008 . 
2. ^ Celtic suite in the catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved August 28, 2008 .