Gilbert Amy

Renowned French Composer and Conductor

Gilbert Amy (29 August 1936, Paris, France) is a composer and a conductor. He studied music at Conservatoire national Supérieur de musique (CNSM) in Paris with Simone Plé-Caussade, Henriette Puig-Roger, Darius Milhaud, and Olivier Messiaen. Later on, Pierre Boulez commissioned Mouvements from Amy, which was performed at the Domaine musical in 1958. He followed Pierre Boulez as the director of the Domaine musical concerts from 1967 until the end of the ensemble. Gilbert Amy pursued a career as the conductor of Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre national de France, the Orchestra de l'Opéra de Paris, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Radio Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1976, Amy founded the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France, of which he was conductor and artistic director until 1981. In 1982, he taught composition and musical analysis at Yale University. He has been the director of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique (CNSM) in Lyon (France) since 1984.