Jean-Marie Morel

Born in 1934, Jean-Marie Morel studied litterature at the Paris Sorbonne and music with masters such as Pierre Lantier, René Leibowitz and Michel Puig.

He was the adviser of the musical studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Lyon until 1995. Beforehands he was a coordinator at the Maison de la culture in Grenoble (1967-1976), then responsible for the animation and peda- gogy at the Ensemble intercontemporain (1977-1983), director of the National School of Music in Chalon-sur-Saône (1983- 1990), then a Music Inspector for the Rhône-Alpes region during one year. From now on, he has freed himself from the administration.

Jean-Marie Morel has so far written more than 60 compositions of varied styles: instrumental and vocal music, ballet, incidental and film music, musical, pieces aimed at teaching the music…

In the beginning, Jean-Marie Morel’s musical language is atonal (empirical dodecaphony, more rarely, serial) and applies itself to deliberately indefined forms. Nonetheless Jean-Marie Morel never hides his attraction to the consonance, which he largely used in his incidental and film music.

Since he has succesfully made the synthesis through the emancipated dissonance and the consonance-mode, with a predilection for the traditional vocal and instrumental means.

More than the search of new means of expression, it is the pleasure and the emotion of both the interpreter and the audience that matters to him ; and this holds no contradic- tion with his own inner-world… Debussy, Schœnberg and Stravinski are among his most admired models.