スコラ・カントルム
Born in Paris, Geoffroy-Dechaume studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1923-1931 where he was a pupil of Eugène Gigout (organ) and Georges Caussade (composition). From 1922-1937 he served as organist of Notre Dame de Pontoise and from 1937-1939 he taught on the faculty of the University of Caen Lower Normandy. He then took a position at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Poitiers where he led a highly regarded early music group, the Collegium Musicae Antiquae. From 1962 until his retirement he was professor at the Schola Cantorum de Paris.