Member Since: 24/06/2007
Band Website: www.ktra.fr
Band Members:Gaël Navard was born in 1982 in Biot in the South of France.He studied composition and musicology at the Conservatory and the University of Nice with composers like Michel Pascal and Antoine Bonnet.He then specialized in electroacoustic composition at the CIRM (Centre International de Recherche Musicale) of Nice and at the CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio technologies) of the University of California in Berkeley thanks to a scholarship awarded by the FACE Fondation (French American Cultural Exchange).He also obtained scholarships from the “Ministère de la Culture†in France and the Paul Sacher Fondation in Basel (Switzerland) to work on a PhD about composition and musical games supervised by Pr. Pascal Decroupet at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, and to fund his research at the University of Columbia in New York with Pr. George Lewis.He composed more than twenty instrumental and electroacoustic compositions, played in various festivals mainly in France (MANCA in Nice, “Cité de la musique†and DanseM in Marseilles, “Radio France†in Paris, George Verney-Caron Gallery in Villeurbanne, National Theater of Nice, University of Limoges, Jazz in Marciac, CNSMD in Lyons…).
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Sounds Like: www.myspace.com/legripi
Record Label: Label 2K10
Type of Label: Indie