ANTOINE HERVÉ

Pianist, composer, conductor, artistic director and producer Antoine Hervé is a household name on the French music scene. After graduating from Paris Conservatory, he received several prizes, among them the Django Reinhardt Award from the Académie du Jazz in 1985. From 1987 to 1989, he conducted French Orchestre National de Jazz in more than 140 concerts and for several productions, notably the CDs “ONJ 87″ and “African Dream” (89) . Hervé also founded several organisations and composed for musicals and contemporary classical ensembles. In the jazz field, he performed or recorded with international stars such as Markus Stockhausen, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gil Evans, Quincy Jones. Born in Paris on 20 January 1959, he started piano lessons at the age of eight and went on to complete his education at the Paris Conservatory, where he studied piano with Pierre Sancan, orchestration with Marius Constant, and composition with Daniel Lesur, Henri Challan, Jean-Claude Reynaud, and read more...