Jérôme Combier

Jérôme Combier studied composition, writing, analysis and orchestration with Hacène Larbi, then at the CNSMD in Paris with Emmanuel Nunes, Michaël Lévinas and Denis Cohen. There he won first prize in analysis and composition. In 1995, he was a finalist in the Griegselskalpet competition in Oslo. In September 1998, he became resident at the Fondation Royaumont and then spent two months in residence in Japan. A laureate of the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation, Jérôme Combier followed a course in composition and computer music at Ircam in 2001-2002. In 2003 and 2004, with the support of the Paris Conservatoire, he developed a – composition / directing – activity in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In 2002, he wrote Pays de vent, les Hébrides for the French National Orchestra, which attracted the attention of Unesco. A resident at the Villa Médicis from 2004 to 2006, he was invited by the Why Note Festival in Dijon, Tage fûr Neue Musik in Zurich, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and Ircam. He has written for the Ensemble Recherche and the Ensemble Intercontemporain as part of the Festival d'Automne.