Gérard Pesson

Gérard Pesson is a French composer, born in Torteron (Cher) in 1958. He studied literature and musicology at the Sorbonne, then composition at the Paris Conservatoire with Ivo Malec and Betsy Jolas, and was a resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome from 1990 to 1992. He writes chamber, vocal, orchestral and stage works, some of them built on music by Brahms and Mahler, and teaches composition at the Paris Conservatoire.