About author : GEAY Gérard

GEAY Gérard

After studying musical analysis with Jean-Pierre Guézec and Olivier Messiaen, and composition with André Jolivet and Henri Dutilleux at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), Gérard Geay (1945) gradually adopted an epistemological approach to teaching composition at conservatoires and universities. Without abandoning classical, Romantic and modern styles, in the 1970s he turned his attention to early music from the thirteenth to the early eighteenth centuries.

From 1974 to 1987, he also produced concerts and broadcasts for Radio France, focusing on both early and contemporary music.

In 1987, he founded the early music department of the Conservatoire Supérieur de Lyon (CNSMDL), then directed by Gilbert Amy. After two years as dean of the Centre de musique ancienne de Genève, he was appointed researcher at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (UMR 2162 CNRS) in 2000, while continuing to teach composition in Lyon until his retirement in 2011.

In the 2000s, he took part in several recordings made by Ensemble Musica Nova (dir. Lucien Kandel), establishing from source scores by Guillaume de Machaut, Johannes Ockechem and Josquin des Prez.

In 2018, he published Pratique de la musica ficta au xvie siècle dans les tablatures de luth, published by Éditions Delatour France.

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