Liceu Cambra Masterclasses & Concerts is synonymous with great music and musical wisdom shared by the greatest performers and creators. This concert series reaches its eighth edition this year, reaffirming itself as one of the most interesting initiatives of its kind, and, as always expected, a meeting point for the students of the Higher Center of the Liceu Conservatory with the great international masters, and as an appointment for music lovers from Barcelona with the best music.
Gilles Millière is a French trombonist with a career as an international soloist and professor at the CNSMD in Paris. After his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (first prizes for trombone and chamber music), he was First Soloist of the Paris Opera Orchestra from 1972 to 1992. The four interpretation prizes obtained in international competitions (Prague, Munich, Geneva, Toulon, etc.) then gave him access to a brilliant career as a soloist.
In 1982, at the age of 30, Gilles Millière was appointed professor at the CNSMD in Paris, succeeding Gérard Pichaureau. In 1972, he founded the «Quatuor de Trombones de Paris» with Jacques Fourquet, Alain Manfrin, Michel Becquet. These four exceptional musicians have chosen to serve with brilliance a hitherto unknown instrument.
He is also very regularly invited for master classes, both in France and abroad. Gilles Millière is strongly involved in the cultural landscape of the region where he is from and where he assumes the functions of conductor and artistic director of: the Orchester Symphonique de l’Aube, the Orchester d’ harmonie de Troyes, and the Orchester aubois des jeunes. His long-standing collaboration with the instrument maker Antoine Courtois and the means made available to him by this firm enabled him to develop the recent AC 410 GM trombone model.
Liceu Cambra – Masterclasses & Concerts series has the patronage of Ferrer-Salat Music Foundation.