Contemporary Music Ensemble Presents New Works to the World
	RELATED Back to the main story		Gilbert Amy French composer Gilbert Amy's "La Variation Ajouteè" is a tape piece for 17 instruments and computer tape in surround sound. It "blends the acoustic instrument sounds with the tape very successfully," says Timothy Weiss, Associate Professor of Conducting and Director of Oberlin's Contemporary Music Ensemble. Amy, who lives in Paris, was born in 1936. After completing his secondary education in philosophy, he turned his attentions to the study of music with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messaien at the Paris Conservatoire. During the course of his career, Amy has received commissions from Pierre Boulez, and has collaborated with György Ligeti in an orchestral conducting session at the Centre Acanthes. He will return to Acanthes at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve les Avignon in July 2003 to conduct an orchestral composition workshop. In 1976, Amy founded the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique of Radio-France. Among the other orchestras he has conducted are the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestra of the Opera de Paris, the Orchestre National of Radio-France, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Radio Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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