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Pianist, conductor

( chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres )

Coming from a family of artists, at the age of 16 she obtained a unanimous First Prize for piano at the National Conservatory of Nancy and continued her musical studies in Paris with Alain Weber (writing, harmony, counterpoint), Roger Boutry (choir and orchestra direction) Irène Joachim (vocals) then at the Haute Ecole de Genève in orchestra direction (Arpad Gerecz), choir direction (Michel Corboz) and orchestration (Pierre Wissmer).

Professor at the National Conservatory of Grenoble at the age of 22, (1st Prize of the Fondation de France for her activities as a conductor in the Rhône-Alpes region), she continued her training as a conductor with Michel Mercier, (Orchestre National d’Ile de France) and in the field of contemporary music (Magnus Lindberg, Lorraine Vaillancourt, etc.)

First woman received in the contest of director of National Conservatory of Region, she directed until 2015 the Conservatory with regional radiation of Cergy-Pontoise) (CRR of Cergy-Pontoise) and installed there in partnership with the University of Cergy-Pontoise, a Letters and Arts Degree divided into three courses, music, dance and theater.

With the Orchester-Studio de Cergy-Pontoise, a variable-geometry chamber formation bringing together high-quality professionals, she gave more than 600 concerts in the Paris region, but also abroad (Japan, China, Vietnam, New Caledonia, Poland, Italy, Belgium, etc…)

She orchestrated and then conducted, for small chamber orchestra, « le mariage secret » de Cimarosa (60 performances) and « Lo Speziale » by Haydn (90 performances), directed by Anne-Marie LAZARINI, at the Théâtre Artistic Athévains in Paris (11th arrondissement). She will also bring to life « les Rencontres internationales de composition musicale de Cergy-Pontoise » (60 creations from 2000 to 2014) .

With the Symphonic Orchestra of the Conservatory, in collaboration with the National Scene of Cergy-Pontoise (director Jean-Joêl Le Chapelain) will be mounted about fifteen operas (Carmen with Frédéric Bang-Rouhet in the role of Escamillo, Orpheus and Eurydice by Gluck with Béatrice Massin,  La Traviata with Isabelle Philippe and Anne-Marie Lazzarini, and Lucia de Lammermoor with Isabelle Philippe and Antoine Caubet, West Side Story on a staging of Charlie Brozzoni and a choreography by Charles Cré-Ange,  Cosi fan tutte, … , le Barbier de Séville staged by Gérald Chatelain, etc…); great directors, versatile screenwriters (Nicolas Simonin), and magnificent singers will thus regularly perform at the Théâtre des Louvrais in Pontoise…

Shortly after her arrival in Brussels, she created with her brother Pierre Thomas and Frédéric Anspach, the ASBL « le Salon Bugrane » which offers « at home » about ten concerts a year, presenting young talented and motivated artists…