ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Frédéric Macarez is one of the most active musicians of his generation. Through his different musical and pedagogical activities he has a great commitment to the growth of the percussive arts, the excellence of musical performance and establishing strong links between all the percussion fields.
Principal Percussionist of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and of Orchestre de Paris then Principal Timpanist of this orchestra for more than twenty years Frédéric Macarez has acquired a wonderful experience of orchestral musician and a complete knowledge of the orchestral repertoire under the direction of prestigious conductors.
He is also the Director of Percussion Studies at the Conservatoire Régional de Paris, percussion teacher at the IESM in Aix en Provence and is a sought after clinician, working with students throughout the world.
Frédéric Macarez is a clinician and performer for the Majestic – KHS, Mapex, Innovative Percussion, Evans, Sabian and LP companies.
ABOUT THE CLINIC: Jacques Delécluse : Be Prepared to be a Symphonic Musician
Jacques Delécluse was a great musician, a clever teacher and a wonderful man. He has created, structured and developed the French percussion school brought it into the modern era of music.
He wrote so many books, etudes, pieces of music at a time it was almost nothing that he is THE man in France but also he became so famous all over the world.
As one of Delécluse’s students at the Paris Conservatory (1979 – 81), then as a colleague at the Orchestre de Paris during 12 years and also as a close friend , I have shared with him many great moments of percussion, of music and of life during almost 30 years. From these years I always keep in mind his ideas about playing percussion, about teaching, about composing.
The purpose of this clinic is to explain these ideas through some main famous pieces or etudes as examples and make everyone to understand what Jacques Delécluse had in mind all his life : play percussion like a musical instrument, have pleasure and fun, sing, make music.