Jean-Yves Malmasson

Who is Jean-Yves Malmasson?

Jean-Yves Malmasson is a French composer and conductor.

Malmasson was born in Saint-Cloud in the Paris suburbs. After studies in piano, ondes Martenot, and composition at the Conservatoire National de Région, Boulogne-Billancourt, he went on to study composition and conducting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he won a first prize in composition. His orchestral tone poem "Le chant de Dahut" for ondes Martenot and Orchestra won the SACEM prize at the 1988 Festival des tombées de la nuit, in Rennes.

His principal teachers include Alain Louvier, Pierre Grouvel, Serge Nigg, Jacques Charpentier, and Jean-Claude Hartemann and Jean-Sébastien Bereau.

Malmasson's compositions are written in an expressive, extended-tonal style which uses a great deal of harmonic vocabulary borrowed from the style of Olivier Messiaen. Malmasson is often inspired by space and astronomy.

In addition to being the musical director of the city of Puteaux wind orchestra, a post he has held since 1988, Jean-Yves Malmasson is also director of Orchestre Philharmonique des Yvelines et de l'Ouest Francilien.