Texts/Interviews (Translations in progress)

Sound conception : an article written for the Cahiers du Saxophone (in a forum proposed by MB Charrier).

Looking for Savari : a text written for the n°2 of the Cahiers du Saxophone. But who was Savari ? Certainly not Jean-Nicolas Savary, the famous bassoon maker and player ...

«Distance» by Tôru Takemitsu : history of the version for soprano saxophone. An interview by Taku Ueda, published in the Nonaka Journal, Selmer-Japan.

15/09/13  Reprise ici d’une interview de Giorgio Netti réalisée pour les cahiers du saxophone.

22/09/13  English version of  an interview of Jacques Lejeune made for «Les cahiers du saxophone».

30/09/13  A little vade-mecum for transcription, favourite sport of many saxophone players (myself icluded !!!).

05/10/13  How to work again on a piece already studied ? Why is it difficult ? Which working methods can optimise this particular way of studying ?

23/2/14  An old interview of myself by Jérôme Laran, on the subject of the use of contemporary music in the pedagogical field.

20/2/14  A few reflexions on how to study the altissimo register on the saxophone.

13/2/14  Is it pertinent to use improvisation when one is a classical saxophonist ? In pedagogy ? What advantages if we compare to written music ?

12/1/14  A text written on April 26th, 2001, for the &quot;Livre d

21/1/14  Quelques conseils pour préparer un examen : méthode de travail, précautions, etc ...

22/1/14  Un article sur la justesse que j’avais publiée sur Myspace et qui a été effacé ...

23/1/14  Un questionnaire d’Anne-Cornélia Détrain sur les influences croisées entre musiques du Japon et Occident (que j’avais publié sur Myspace et qui a été effacé ...)

2/2/14  Un entretien avec le compositeur Kasper T Toeplitz réalisé pour les Cahiers de l’ASAX.

10/2/14  Un entretien avec le compositeur Pierre-Adrien Charpy réalisé pour les Cahiers de l’ASAX.

8/3/14 : Contribution for the FORUM of the Cahiers du Saxophone, proposed by Marie-Bernadette Charrier : &quot;Should we always begin saxophone with the alto ?&quot;

5/3/14 : Entretien avec Bruno Giner, par Serge Bertocchi : paru en mai 1994 dans le n° 44 des bulletins de L’Association des saxophonistes français.

12/7/14 : Writing for the Tubax. A text I wrote some time ago, to help composers in their meeting with this new instrument, its qualities and possibilities.

12/7/14 : Adolphe SAX’s class in the Paris Conservatory. A research on all the students who attended the Master’s class for military musicians between 1857 to 1870.