Biography (.pdf)
and
They told about him (.pdf)
Ten years after and having finished his first solo piano opus, Exercice de Styles , 24 solo piano pieces, he decides to study classical writing. His meeting with Michel Merlet, Rome Price and composer, teaching in Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and Conservatoire de Paris, is preponderant. This wonderfull pedagogue, himself Olivier Messiaen's student and Henri Dutilleux's successor in composing education, takes him as student. During four years, he carves him, unsaddles him, sometimes bridles him to push his musical technic into a perfect setting. After some years of musical paper writing, scores becomes clear and the master's pencil has disapeared. Michel Merlet congratulates him : " you are a composer ".