Jérôme Combier

Composer (born 1971)
At the age of 19 Jérôme Combier decided to learn music. While studying musicology at the université de Saint-Denis he also studied guitar, after meeting Hacène Larbi and Emmanuel Nunes at the Conservatoire de Paris he drifted towards composition. During his residency at the Villa Medicis in 2004-05, he met Raphaël Thierry author of the visual installations for the Vies silencieuses series composed for the Cairn ensemble founded by Combier in 1997 and directed since its creation.

In 2008, invited by Ictus, Jérôme Combier, Pierre Nouvel, and Bertrand Couderc imagined a stage adaptation of W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz (premiere 2011 at the festival d’Aix-en-Provence). He wrote Terre et cendres, a one-act opera premired in Lyon in 2012 with the author Atiq Rahimi at the request of the Opéra de Lyon.

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