Michel Garcin-Marrou

 

   
A native of Grenoble in the south east of France, Michel Garcin-Marrou earned his Baccalaureate of Philosophy and a first prize in horn at the Conservatoire de Grenoble.   He continued his horn and chamber music studies at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he studied with the late Jean Devemy.  After two years of required service in a military band, he won a first prize at the Geneva International Horn Competition in 1965.  He then joined the Orchestre de l’Opéra-Comique as fourth horn, playing with distinguished colleagues in the horn section Georges Barboteu, Daniel Bourgue and Gilbert Coursier.  This famous section also served together as members of l'Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux.  In september 1967, the Orchestre de Paris was founded by conductor Charles Munch who chose Michel Garcin-Marrou for the position of first and third horn.  After two seasons, Michel Garcin-Marrou became principal horn.  He has played with all the oustanding conductors of the past thirty-five years including Herbert von Karajan, George Solti, Daniel Barenboim and Christoph Eschenbach, who along with Munch, have served as music directors of the Orchestre de Paris.  He is actively involved in research into the performance and practice of historical instruments of the baroque and classical periods and he owns a collection of horns that is the envy of every museum. He guests with many of the leading European period instrument orchestras including the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the London Classical Players, the Academy of Ancient Music and La Chapelle Royale.  Well known as an educator, he used to be Professor of Horn at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon and Professor of Natural Horn at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris where he reinstated the hand horn class which had been disbanded a hundred years ago.  He is currently researching a book on the history of the French horn and the horn players of France.

Recordings

 

L.v. Beethoven : Sonata op. 17 for horn and piano

L.F. Dauprat : Trio for 3 horns and piano

G. Rossini : Prelude, theme and variations for horn and piano

J. Brahms ; Trio op. 40 for violin, horn and piano

Conservatoire de Paris

 

Pierre-Yves Madeuf, horn (Beethoven, Dauprat : horn 2, Rossini, Brahms)

Michel Garcin-Marrou, horn (Dauprat : horn 1)

Cyrille Grenot, horn (Dauprat : horn 3)

Soo Park, piano

Fabien Roussel, violin

 

recorded en 2002

Internationales Naturhorn Festival Essen 1993

 

J.S. Bach: Concerto # 1 in F Major BWV 1046 (Wilhelm Bruns, Oliver Kersken)

III. Allegro

J.D. Zelenka: Capriccio # 3 in F Major ZWV 184 (Andrew Joy, Rainer Jurkiewicz)

I. Andante - Allegro - Andante

G.F. Telemann: Suite in F Major for 2 horns, strings and continuo (Claude Maury, Piet Dombrecht)

IV. Menuet. Moderato

V. Bourrée. Presto

W.A. Mozart: Quintet in E flat Major KV 407/386c for horn, violin, 2 violas and cello (Ab Koster)

I. Allegro

L.v. Beethoven: Sextet in E flat Major op. 81b for 2 horns and string quartet (Lowell Greer, Francis Orval)

III. Rondo. Allegro

F. Ries: Sonata op. 34 in F Major (Ulrich Hübner)

III. Rondo. Allegro

F.A. Hoffmeister: Quintet in E flat Major for horn and string quartet (Jan Schroeder)

II. Rondo

L.-F. Dauprat: Sonata in F Major op. 2 for horn and piano (Michel Garcin-Marrou)

I. Allegro moderato

L. Mozart: Sinfonia da caccia for 4 horns, strings and continuo (Jan Schroeder, Ulrich Hübner, Wilhelm Bruns, Richard Seraphinoff)

I. Allegro

J. Haydn (Rosetti): Concerto in E flat Major for 2 horns and orchestra (Lowell Greer, Thomas Müller)

I. Allegro maestoso

M. Haydn: Concerto in D Major for horn and orchestra (Anthony Halstead)

I. Larghetto

J. Haydn: Symphony in D Major # 31 "Horn signal" (Wilhelm Bruns, Oliver Kersken, Michel Gasciarino, Tilman Schärf

I. Allegro

Internationales Naturhorn Festival Essen 1993

 

Wilhelm Bruns, Oliver Kersken, Andrew Joy, Rainer Jurkiewicz, Claude Maury, Piet Dombrecht, Ab Koster, Lowell Greer, Francis Orval, Ulrich Hübner, Jan Schroeder, Michel Garcin-Marrou, Richard Seraphinoff, Thomas Müller, Anthony Halstead, Michel Gasciarino, Tilman Schärf, horns

La Stagione Frankfurt, conducted by  Michael Schneider

Ensemble Les Adieux

Brandenburgisches Consortium

Robert Hill, piano

 

recorded in 1993

 

Calender

Natural horn week-end in Lyon (France)

The teachers of the CNR in Lyon organize a collaboration with l'ENM in Villeurbanne and the CNSM in Lyon on January 26th and 27th, 2007

 

Thursday 01/25/07

4:00 pm-7:00 pm (in Lyon or in Villeurbanne)

Exam with a piece on natural horn. François Mérand invited in the jury as well as Patrick Rouch, Daniel Foubert, Joël Nicod

Friday 01/26/07

2:00 pm-4:00 pm Debussy room

Communication on natural horn by Michel Garcin-Marrou and François Mérand (origin, instrument making, history, évolution, répertoire)

8:00 pm Debussy room

Concert with Michel Garcin-Marrou, François Mérand, Joël Nicod, Patrick Rouch, Michel Molinaro and the students of the CNR of Lyon and of the ENM of Villeurbanne

Saturday 01/27/07

10h00-12h00 et 14h00-16h00

Debussy and Ninon Vallin rooms: master-classes on natural horn repertoire by Michel Garcin-Marrou and François Mérand

 

15, 18, 21, 24 and 26 May 2007 at 7:00 pm, Opera house in Lille (France)

G.F. Handel : Giulio Cesare

Le Concert d'Astrée, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm

Stage director, David McVicar

Michel Garcin-Marrou, horn

 

22 May 2007 at 8:30, Theater in Arras (France)

28 May 2007, Cremona, Monteverdi Festival (Italy)

29 May 2007, Cremona, Monteverdi Festival (Italy)

G.F. Handel : Water Music

Le Concert d'Astrée, direction Emmanuelle Haïm

Michel Garcin-Marrou, cor

 

39th International Horn Symposium July 8-14, 2007 in La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland

with Alessio Allegrini, Javier Bonnet, André Cazalet, Michel Garcin Marrou, Ivo Gass, Heiner Krause, Festival hornquartett, Thomas Müller, Stephan Ruf, Samuel Seidenberg, Arkady Shilkloper, Horn section Berlin Philharmonic, Stefan Dohr, Radek Baborak, Frank Loyd, Tony Halstead, Junji Takemura, Tsutomu Moruyama, Eliz Erkalp, Claude MauryTeunis van der Zwart, Raúl Díaz, etc.

an entire day devoted to the natural horn on the 12th