Christophe Desjardins
Christophe Desjardins (24 April 1962 – 13 February 2020) was a French violist and specialist in contemporary music.
Christophe Desjardins
- Born
- 24 April 1962
- Birthplace
- Caen, France
- Occupation
- Violist
- Died
- 13 February 2020
- Full name
- Christophe Jean-Marie Desjardins.
- Nationality
- France.
- Education
- Conservatoire de Paris.
- Languages
- French.
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• Born — 24 April 1962 • Birthplace — Caen, France • Occupation — Violist • Died — 13 February 2020 • Past Member Of — Ensemble InterContemporain
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Christophe Desjardins, a musician, violinist and violist, was born on 24 April 1962 and died on 13 February 2020 in Paris.
Biography
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Born in Caen, Christophe Desjardins entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1982, at the age of 20, in Serge Collot's class. He also studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. In 1990, he was solo violist at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. He joined the Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris in 1990. Desjardins premiered works for viola by Ivan Fedele, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Michael Jarrell, Michaël Levinas, Emmanuel Nunes, Jonathan Harvey, Wolfgang Rihm and Gianvincenzo Cresta. In addition to numerous world premieres, Desjardins taught at several universities, including the Juilliard School in New York. From 2010 to 2013, he taught at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.
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Christophe Desjardins was born in Caen, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Caen (Calvados). The death is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Christophe Desjardins died at 15th arrondissement of Paris.
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• Voix d'alto, works by Luciano Berio and Morton Feldman, Paris, AEON, 2004. • Emmanuel Nunes, La main noire, AEON, 2007.
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