Jean-François Zygel
Illustration — Jean-François Zygel, 2020 Jean-François Zygel (born 23 November 1960) is a French pianist, improviser, composer and improvisation teacher for piano at the Conservatoire de Paris. Zygel's music is nourished by synagogue cantillation. Two of his great-grandfathers were hazzanim in Poland.
Jean-François Zygel
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- Born
- 1960 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- composer · musician
- Fields
- classical music
- Education
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages
- French
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Jean-François Zygel, recorded as a musician, was born on 23 November 1960 in Paris.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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On France Inter
At the beginning of 2015, France Inter entrusted him with a weekly programme entitled La Preuve par Z. The composer evokes and explains the great composers, with long excerpts from concerts in support.
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On France Télévisions
On 31 August 2017, Zygel presented "Zygel Académie" on France 2, a show where celebrities discover classical music. It has 601,000 viewers, or 7.3% of the audience.
Publications
• Quand du stérile hiver a resplendi l'ennui... Conditions d'existence du langage musical, in Le Débat, issue 82, November–December 1994,.
Awards
• Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (2015). • Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. • Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite (2006).
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