Philippe Chamouard was born in Paris. He studied piano with Aline van Barentzen and composition with Roger Boutry (C.N.S.M.D.P.), as well as musicology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He published in 1989 Gustav Mahler tel qu’en lui-même (Gustav Mahler as he really was), reprinted by Delatour France.
His works have been performed at numerous institutions and festivals accross France (Radio-France, Orchestre Colonne, Les Paris de la Musique, Festival d’art sacré de la ville de Paris, salle Gaveau, salle Pleyel…) and abroad (Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Bucarest Symphony Orchestra, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, El Salvador Symphony Orchestra…).
His catalogue includes ten symphonies, concertante pieces for trumpet, cello, violin, Celtic harp or koto, together with string orchestra, voice, and choir pieces. It is recorded mainly by Universal Music and Indesens Records.
Pierre-Jean Tribot listens in his music “a kind of rightness of spirit between the amusing and the serious, the grave and the light, with superb orchestration”. For the American Record Guide, “the harmonic language is Messiaenic here and there, but with its own dialect. As striking as these pieces are, their strength lies more in their sensuous and visceral appeal than in anything formal.”