About Music&Arts Networks
Music&Arts Network, is a multidisciplinary artistic network presenting itself as:
- A source of ideas to assist in the definition, development, implementation and sharing of cultural projects.
- An expert guide to drafting and submitting proposals to public and private institutions all around the world.
- A coordinator of innovative cultural events.
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Collaborators
François Dru
François Dru was born in 1972 in Compiègne. Before becoming a trumpeter at the Musique de la région aérienne Nord-Est, François Dru studied at the Paris regional conservatory and later at Université Paris-IV Sorbonne. He worked in the recording industry (FNAC – Alpha productions), in the film industry as music supervisor, as executive producer at Radio-France and as editor for Diapason and Classica magazines. François Dru has been artistic consultant for several major orchestras including Orchestre Les Siècles, Orchestre national de Lyon and as artistic administrator at Orchestre de Paris and has worked closely with conductors François-Xavier Roth, Leonard Slatkin and Parvo Jarvi. In 2014-15, François Dru was artistic director of the Long Thibaud Crespin Competition (violin and piano sessions).
Pierre-Jean Tribot
Born in Paris in 1978, Pierre-Jean Tribot studied history at the Université Paris Sorbonne and Université Libre in Brussels,while continuing to play the French horn. He supervises pedagogical digital resources for the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Pierre-Jean Tribot was the Editor in Chief of the website ResMusica.com, columnist for the RTBF Musiq’3 and vice-president of the jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). He was the artistic delegate of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège under the music director Pascal Rophé. He is author of several publications about the history of The Brussels region, specifically about the Brussels World’s Fair 1958, the Atomium and a Guide to the best classical music and dance DVDs.
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The board of Music&Arts Networks
Pierre Pentchev
Pierre Pentchev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1973. In 1984, he follows his father who works in Moscow. He begins his studies at the Sourikov's Beaux-Arts School, the greastest art school in U.S.S.R. That time period influenced the young man through the discovery and learning inside a moving society. After he received his diploma in 1991, the desire to step out of the academic studies and the curiosity of life persuade him to leave all behind him to go to Paris, the Capital of Arts. There, he pursues his study of painting's and print's technical, but he gets his real education in the museums, in the Art Galleries and most of all, through the contact of many friends artists that he meets. He introduced his paintings in exhibitions, he worked for theaters and took part in artistic associations. For Pierre Pentchev, painting is a kind of continuation - an open door that questions the world from our days to the past centuries, for what brings the Univers as one: Humanity, Society, Faith. Art should be able to bring all those thogeter, as a way to touch people, out of all time.
Jean-Baptiste de la Taille
Initiated into music from an early age, Jean-Baptiste de La Taille followed a variety of studies including piano, singing, history and arts management. Upon completion of his studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), he held various positions in the recording and music production industry (Universal Music Classics France, Alpha Productions) and was ahead of programming for France Musique and Radio Notre Dame.Thanks tohis passion for singing he was member of several choirs including Les Petits Chanteurs de Paris. With them he performed in France, Europe and South-Eastern Asia until the end of 1980, principally under the music director Patrick Marco but also conducted by Eliahu Inbal and Sir Colin Davis. As a specialist in vocal repertoire he has worked principally but not exclusively as a music critic for ResMusica since 2009.
Maxime Kaprielian
Clarinetist and singer Maxime Kaprielian studied choral conducting at the Conservatoire de Marseille and was awarded his bachelor’s degree in Musicology at Aix-Marseille Universités. Titled of CAPES and aggregation of music, he continues in parallel with his job to teach the choral conducting. He is one of the founders of the web site ResMusica.com where he was for 9 years director of publishing and a member of the Syndicate of Professionals in music/dance/theatre. He was in charge of the activities for music, dance and history of arts by the side of the editor of National Education and on leaving the ministry in 2014, he joined the ensemble Musicatreize as artistic assistant and marketing manager. Maxime Kaprielian is a consultant and lecturer at the Académie-Festival des Arcs since 2007 and author of numerous articles in many revues and publications, including co-authoring with Pierre-Jean Tribot, 2010 Guide des DVDs de musique classique (Edition Symétries, Lyon).
