La Chacana

After having participated since the 80's, as a recorder player, in the development in France of early music and particularly medieval music (member of the Gilles Binchois ensemble, co-director of Alla Francesca, initiator of projects and recordings devoted to the work of Guillaume de Machaut...) he has been collaborating in a privileged and constant way with Jordi Savall since 1995. In order to deepen his approach to early music, he has taken a close interest in the traditional music of Europe and other cultures. In 1998, he became a disciple of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, a great master of Hindustani music and of the Bansuri flute. His perpetual search for the fundamental gestures and sounds of humanity led him to the fascinating universe of pre-Columbian flutes and civilisations and of Amerindian traditions, in connection with nature and the songs of birds. 

Many of his recordings have received international critical acclaim (Diapasons d'or de l'année, nomination for the Victoires de la Musique...).

In 1994, he was invited to teach the first recorder class in France at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, and has since been a professor at the CNSMD in Lyon. He is regularly invited to give master classes at major Early Music institutions, such as the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis.

He is the composer and director of the original music for the animated film PACHAMAMA (2018), nominated for the 2019 Césars.

June 2020