Biography

Philippe Chamouard was born in Paris. He studied piano with Aline van Barentzen and composition with Roger Boutry (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris) as well as musicology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.

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After having been writer/editor for Deutsche Grammphon, he taught music writing at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Since then , he regularly gives conferences. He published a book on "Gustav Mahler tel qu'en lui-même"
( Gustav Mahler as hereally was), reprinted by Delatour France.

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His works have been programmed at numerous institutions and festivals across France ( Radio France, Orchestre Colonne, Les Paris de la Musique, Festival d'Art Sacré de la Ville de Paris , salle Gaveau, salle Pleyel...) and abroad (Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Bucarest Symphony Orchestra, cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels of Los Angeles, El Salvador Symphony Orchestra, Montreal cathedral, the Strad Hall in Tokyo...).

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Philippe Chamouard works essentially orchestral scores: 10 symphonies, concertante works with trumpet, clarinet, cello, violin, celtic harp, japanese koto...,but also for strings orchestra, for voices, for choirs...His works are recorded in Universal Music and Indesens/Calliope Records.

Halabja has passed around fifty in France, the Kyrie de la Messe des Anges was a record success as
Universal reissued it .

Barbara Hendricks, Olivier Messiaen, Maurice André and Ennio Morricone have congratulated Chamouard and encouraged him to continue his search for a language common to composer, interpreter and audience. Refusing a purely i ntellectual and theoretical concept of creation, the sources of his inspiration are essentially linked to an ideology drawn from humanism and spirituality.