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Samuel Favre

Percussion

Born in 1979 in Lyon, Samuel Favre studied percussion under the tuition of Alain Londeix at the Lyon Regional Conservatory, where he won a Gold Metal in 1996. That same year saw him join the Higher National Conservatory for Music and Dance in Lyon in the classes of Georges Van Gucht and Jean Geoffroy, where he graduated in musical studies in 2000 with first-class honors and unanimity of the jury.
At the same time, Samuel Favre studied at the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Centre Acanthes. He collaborated with Camille Rocailleux, composer and percussionist, who invited him to join the ARCOSM company in 2000 to create Echoa, a show mixing music and dance, which has already been performed nearly 400 times in France and abroad.
As a member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain since 2001, Samuel Favre has performed in numerous creations, including Unsuk Chin’s Double concerto for piano and percussion, Isabel Mundry’s Noli Me Tangere, as well as less conventional works such as those by François Sarhan and Alexander Schubert. With the EIC, he has recorded several works, notably Le Marteau sans maître by Pierre Boulez.