Fabrice Marandola obtained a Diplôme de Formation Supérieure in Jacques Delécluse’s class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMD) in 1997. Currently he is a professor of percussion at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, co-director of the McGill Percussion Ensemble and has been a guest instructor at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY (State University of New York) since September 2006. Fabrice Marandola has also previously taught at the Conservatoire National de Region of Grenoble and of Angers (France) and at the CNSMD of Paris (Pedagogy department). He is particularly devoted to new music, and often collaborates with composer Arnaud Petit. The CD Chants …, which he recorded with Les Jeunes Solistes, devoted to the vocal works of Claude Vivier, won the Académie du disque Charles Cros “Grand Prix 2003”. He remains equally attached to orchestral music and participated in numerous concerts with the orchestras of Radio France (Orchestre National de France, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique of Radio France) from 1998 to 2005.
Along with his career as a performer, Fabrice Marandola carries out research in ethnomusicology. In 2003 he completed a PhD in Ethnomusicology at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is currently a member of the Langues-Musiques-Sociétés laboratory (CNRS-Paris V) and has collaborated on three compact discs dedicated to the traditional music of Cameroon (Inédit and Ocora/Radio France). He recently joined the research group devoted to “Expanded Musical Practice” at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology in Montréal (CIRMMT).
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