Maurice Bourgue

Maurice Bourgue , born in 1939, is a Hautboïste, chambrist, Compositeur, and Leader French.

Biography

Maurice Bourgue made his studies with the Conservatoire National of Music of Paris in the class of oboe of Etienne Baudo and Fernand Oubradous. He obtains a First price of oboe in 1958 and a First price of chamber music in 1959. He gains then the first prices of the following international contests: Geneva 1963, Birmingham 1965, Munich 1967, Prague 1968, Budapest 1970. Maurice Bourgue is called in 1967 by Charles Munch with the Orchestre of Paris, where there will remain oboe solo until in 1979.

He occurs in parallel as a soloist, under the direction of prestigious chiefs (Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboïm, Riccardo Chailly, John Eliot Gardiner), and undertakes an activity of direction of orchestra, in France like abroad.

Since 1972, it devotes a big part of its activities to the chamber music within Octuor with wind which bears its name and of which he is the founder, constituted musicians of the Orchestra of Paris. It will record several discs with this formation. Musical director of the International Academy of Chamber music Sándor Végh, Maurice Bourgue deploys a continuous teaching activity, as well within the academies of Paris and Geneva, as at the time of master-classes which it animates with Budapest, London, Lausanne, Moscow, Oslo, Jerusalem, or Kyoto.

Creator of works of Berio and Dutilleux ( the Quotations , 1991), Maurice Bourgue recorded a great number of discs, for which several were rewarded.

Married to Colette, born Kling, pianist and antique dealer with the chips of Saint-Ouen, Vernaison market.

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