Pianist, composer, arranger and conductor Frédéric Manoukian founded and directs various formations such as Frédéric Manoukian Big Band.

Pianist, composer, arranger and conductor Frédéric Manoukian founded and directs various formations such as Frédéric Manoukian Big Band.

Arranger and musical director of TV programmes presented by Michel Drucker on France 2: 'Samedi soir avec', 'Tenue de Soirée', 'Tour en Fête' and 'Cérémonie des Molières'. For the last two years he and his Big Band have been accompanying Laurent Gerra's shows (TV, shoots, etc.).

He has just finished a double album for Pierre Perret and co-produced a show in tribute to the songs of Frank Sinatra.

The Frédéric Manoukian Big Band has also accompanied Guy Marchand, Paul Anka, Robin McKelle, Sophia Nelson, Roberto Alagna, Johnny Halliday, Patrick Bruel, Nolwenn Leroy, Patrick Fiori, Liane Foly, Julien Clerc, Hélène Ségara, Tina Arena, Yannick Noah, Florent Pagny, Michel Leeb, Enrico Macias, Adamo, Pascal Obispo, Michel Delpech, Maurane, Laura Pausini, Marcel Amont, Nicole Croisille, Michel Fugain, Charlélie Couture, Jeane Manson and Michel Jonasz.

 

Composer, guitarist, pianist, arranger, orchestrator, copyist , and specialist in computer music, Gary Atkins worked for the theater, television, film and multimedia. He is also the creator of macProVideo tutorials used worldwide.

Gary Atkins is a composer, guitarist, keyboardist, arranger, orchestrator, copyist, and computer specialist who has worked in Theatre, Television, Film and Multimedia.

A MacProVideo Trainer Gary has created tutorials that have been used by people around the world. Gary co-wrote the music for the CTV series Creepy Canada with Martin Deller.

He has assisted and acted as copyist for some of Canada's award-winning composers (John Welsman, Paul Hoffert and Glenn Morley). Currently, Gary is the Technology Co-ordinator for the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) and teaches Music Technology at Humber College.

He is highly regarded as a trainer, and has been sought after by awarding composers such as Joe Sealy (Jazz Pianist), Glenn Morley (Genie Award winner), David Blumberg (Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, American Idol), Yves Frulla (Celine Dion Band: Keyboard Player), Clarence McDonald (James Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Barbara Streisand) and others to provide training for individual users and groups in how to use Sibelius and other software.

In 2007 Gary was made an Apple Distinguished Educator, and has presented at conferences across North America including the 2008 National Educators Computer Conference in San Antonio.

 

For 37 years , Georges Blumenfeld is director and sound engineer of Studio Marcadet

For 37 years , Georges Blumenfeld is director and sound engineer of Studio Marcadet.

Of the many performers who have recorded their albums we have to mention Danny Brillant, Kassav', Trust, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Stéphanie de Monaco, Eddy Mitchell and Laurent Voulzy.

George Martin (the producer for the Beatles) recorded four Kenny Rogers songs at Marcadet. The musical comedy, The Count of Monte Christo, was also mixed there.

 

Georgios Sotiropoulos is a talented sound engineer who participates in numerous festivals and collaborates with famous Greek night clubs and companies..

Georgios Sotiropoulos is a talented sound engineer who participates in numerous festivals and collaborates with famous Greek night clubs and companies.

He has collaborated with Antipas in many Greek night clubs: Eirini Merkouri, Giannis Zouganelis, Stelios Maximos .... and has worked for famous companies like AUDIO CONTROL, DREAM TEAM HELLAS, MSH EUROPE and many 'other.

Participation in many festivals with great artists: Odeon of Herodes Atticus with Dimitris Mitropanos, Tour among Greece with the key Greek singer Anna Vissi, School Wave Festival in Greek Music Hall, concert at the Vraxon Theater with the Italian singer Juicy Ferreri.

 

Artistic director, producer and composer for many French and international artists.

Artistic director, producer and composer for many French and international artists.

• Producer/Composer for numerous entertainers as Mr Untel & Hanna H, Loving Paris, Sister Queen, Isis, Precious Wilson, Kova Rea and WahWah Watson.
• Production/Direction/Remixes for the Major Company labels: Khaled, Sonique, Tuvstarr, Master Boys, Patrick Juvet, Brigitte Fontaine, Kenny Thomas, Dalida, Charles & Eddie, Rachid Taha, Carole Jiani, Art Mengo and L'Affaire Louis Trio.
• Multimedia Producer for www.blobprod.com (Universal, Meadow Five Star, Salem, Camel).
• Sound designer, theme tunes and TV ad music (Paris Première, Ardisson A2, MCM, Maxximum, NRJ/TF1, General Motors, etc).

 

What a career! He started out with Coluche at a time when Coluche was doing music shows (he resumed this role in Antoine de Caunes' film about Coluche). Then he worked with Renaud, Gainsbourg, and the Gypsy Kings. He is one of the founders of Le Grand Orchestra du Splendid.

What a career! He started out with Coluche at a time when Coluche was doing music shows (he resumed this role in Antoine de Caunes' film about Coluche). Then he worked with Renaud, Gainsbourg, and the Gypsy Kings. He is one of the founders of Le Grand Orchestra du Splendid.

Gérard Prévost had his first taste of rock with Chaussettes Noires, and of jazz with Miles Davis. He then made the natural progression to jazz-rock fusion in the 1970s (ZAO, Transit Express, David Rose, etc.).

Accompanying a number of singer-songwriters, such as Les Enfants Terribles, Maxime Le Forestier and Yves Simon, gave him the opportunity to meet Coluchee and found Le Grand Orchestre du Splendid.

In the 1980s he became director and arranger for Renaud, Odeurs, Bijou, and finally, the Gipsy Kings, with whom he worked for 14 years.

In 2002 he returned to the jazz scene, starting a trio with Stéphane Guéry (guitarist), who introduced him to Arbon. And the journey continues with studio and live work. He was involved in the recording of two of Arbon's albums and the subsequent tours, Etre et avoir été, in 2005, and Il pleut au Paradis, in 2007.

 

With 30 years of broadcasting, Graffiti Urban Radio is recognized today as a major and emerging actor in the Yonnais landscape, which covers a broadcasting area of ​​30 kilometers representing a basin of approximately 120,000 inhabitants.

With 30 years of broadcasting, Graffiti Urban Radio is recognized today as a major and emerging actor in the Yonnais landscape, which covers a broadcasting area of ​​30 kilometers representing a basin of approximately 120,000 inhabitants.

In a few figures, Graffiti Urban Radio is:

• 26 years of 88.6 FM antenna.
• 30 km of diffusion around Roche sur Yon.
•  More than 50 members.
• About twenty thematic programs.
• Created in 1986 by the Saint-André-d'Ornay youth center, the Graffiti Urban Radio adventure was to last only one summer. Twenty-five years later, the radio is still there, firmly anchored in the Yonnais landscape.
•  It has about fifty members and three employees.

 

Today, the Graffiti association is made up of more than 50 volunteers who use the radio medium as a means of expression through numerous programs. These different programs cover many areas, both informative and cultural, local, musical, and even political. Three employees acquiring the operation of the radio, administration, programming, training, development of the structure but also journalism missions.

 

Actor, singer and multi-talented French musician who plays piano, saxophone and clarinet. His preferences are jazz, blues and tango.

Actor, singer and multi-talented French musician who plays piano, saxophone and clarinet. His preferences are jazz, blues and tango.

Guy Marchand was born in Paris and grew up there until his military service. While studying at the lycée Voltaire in Paris, he played clarinet at night in the clubs around Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

He began his military service as a reserve officer at the airborne school in Pau, and in 1962 was posted as a sublieutenant (trained paratrooper) to the airborne regiment, which was part of the Air Transport Group (GLA1) at Montigny-lès-Metz.

This experience led to his posting with the 3^rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3^e REI) as a liaison officer during the war in Algeria. For a time he served with the French Foreign Legion.

In his capacity as a paratroop officer, he was one of the technical advisors on the 1962 film, The Longest Day. This paved the way for his entry into the world of cinema.

Guy Marchand is also blessed with the beautiful voice of a crooner and tasted his first musical success with La Passionata, a hit in the summer of 1965. Several equally successful albums and singles followed, but he also loves tango music, and in 1982 he sang Destinée on the soundtrack for Les Sous-doués en Vacances and Le père Noël est une Ordure.

Indeed, Guy Marchand would say, in his usual good humour, that Destinée, along with the Avec le PMU on joue comme on aime advert, were his most important contributions to French culture. After his appearance as a paratrooper in The Longest Day, he acted alongside Lino Ventura and Brigitte Bardot in Robert Enrico's Boulevard du Rhum.

His cinema career is peppered with support roles, one of which, the deputy to Lino Ventura's inspector in Claude Miller's Garde à Vue, earned him a César award for best supporting actor in 1982.

That same year, he had a part in Nestor Burma, the tale of the tough detective, which was first played by Michel Serrault and then by Guy Marchand himself nearly ten years later in the television series of the same name. His performance in Coup de Torchon alongside Philippe Noiret was also admired, along with his roles as a bad-tempered husband in Cousin, Cousine and as a cynical car mechanic in L'Été en Pente Douce.

As well as being an expert parachutist, Guy Marchand is a boxer, a horse rider, a polo player, and a Simca 1000 rally car driver with Star Racing Team. In 2007, his autobiography, Le Guignol des Buttes-Chaumont, was published, and he married Adelina, a young Siberian security officer whom he met in Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport.

Previously he had been married to the actress, Béatrice Chatelier, his fictional wife in Les sous-doués en vacances. After his autobiography he wrote two novels: Un rasoir dans les mains d'un singe, in 2008, and Le soleil des enfants perdus, in 2011, which was awarded the Jean Nohain prize in 2012. Also in 2012 he returned to music with the release of the album, Chansons de ma jeunesse, in which he interprets classic French songs.