Guy Touvron

Guy Touvron is a traditional Trompettiste , born on February 15th 1950 with Vichy.

His/her parents are not musicians, but his/her grandfather played of the Cornet.

He begins at ten years his musical studies in Vichy with the horn.

Guy Touvron enters in 1967 to CNSM of Paris the class of Maurice André; one year later it gains the first price of horn, and in 1969 the first price of trumpet; it gains of 1971 to 1975, the three international Grands Prix of Munich, Prague and Geneva…

Since, Guy Touvron traverses the world and is the favorite of many orchestras, such I Solisti Veneti, English Chamber Orchestrated, Mozarteum of Salzburg, Festival String of Lucerne, chamber orchestra of Prague and of course the Chamber orchestras French (Toulouse, Pays of the Loire, Basse-Normandie, Pays of Savoy, etc), and many symphony orchestras in the various countries which accommodate it.

International soloist, it is invited by the greatest Festivals in France like abroad: Estival festival of Paris, Lille, Prades… Lanaudière (Canada), Ansbach (Germany), Pollença (Spain), Stressed (Italy), Salzburg (Austria), Montreux (Swiss).

He played in more the big rooms of the world, under the direction of chiefs such as: Yehudi Menuhin, Serge Baudo, Sylvain Cambreling, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Emmanuel Krivine, Michel Plasson, Claudio Scimone, etc

More than 25 works were written for him by current type-setters: Karol Beffa, Charles Chaynes, Graciane Finzi, Anthony Girard, Jacques Loussier, Alain Margoni, François Rauber…

He plays also regularly in Asia (7 rounds in Japan), in the USA, and already recorded more than eighty discs.

Nowadays, its interpretations with organ and pianos, with Emmanuelle Huart for example, are worth always the most beautiful applause to him.

Professor with CNR of the street of Madrid with Paris.

Officer of the National order of the Merit and Knight of Arts and Letters.

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