International Wind Orchestra Orchestration Competition CIO#2

Maxine (Maxime) AULIO is a female composer and conductor. Born in 1980, she began her musical career playing the organ, percussion, harpsichord and French horn.

In 2006, she obtained a Master’s degree in Music, specialising in composition and wind orchestra conducting, at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven (Belgium).

From 2008 to 2013, she was Head of Military Band at the Main Band of the French Army (Versailles). In addition to her voluntary work to promote the French wind orchestra with her friends and colleagues in the Association Française pour l’Essor des Ensembles à Vents (AFEEV), she has been teaching wind orchestra conducting (Bachelor’s degree) at the École Supérieure de Musique de Lisbonne (Portugal) since 2021.

Philippe Ferro is a French conductor and teacher with a passion for history, a love of theatre and an epicurean streak in the original sense of the word. A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in flute, chamber music, pedagogy and conducting, and holder of three teaching certificates, he is currently pursuing a career as a conductor and teacher at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, Pôle Supérieur Paris Boulogne-Billancourt and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.

First flutist with the Orchestre Poitou-Charentes from 1992 to 2000, he also pursued a career as a chamber musician, joining his former teachers Pierre-Yves ARTAUD and Arlette and Pierre-Alain BIGET in the Arcadie quartet.

A promoter of music for wind instruments, since 1992 he has been musical director of the Orchestre d’Harmonie de la Région Centre, and from 2000 to 2008 he was conductor of the Musique des gardiens de la paix de Paris.

Born in 1959, Anthony Girard’s catalogue in 2022 includes almost two hundred and fifty titles. He has written for numerous orchestral ensembles (symphony orchestra, chamber orchestra, wind band), while cultivating a predilection for voice and chamber music. His compositions are published mainly by Billaudot and AGIR éditions, and have been the subject of numerous recordings.

Anthony Girard has also taught orchestration and musical analysis at the CRR de Paris since 2009, and orchestration at the CNSMD de Paris since 2012. He is the author of two books on orchestration: L’orchestration de Haydn à Stravinsky (Éditions Billaudot) and Techniques d’orchestration (AGIR éditions).

Between 2023 and 2024, he has been invited by Coups de vents as artist-in-residence to offer ten composers from the Hauts-de-France region a remarkable training session in orchestration for wind ensembles.

A pupil of Pierre BOULEZ and Peter EÖTVÖS, Pascale JEANDROZ is a graduate of the CNSMD in Paris – where she won four First Prizes – and the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris – where she holds the Diplôme Supérieur de Direction d’orchestre – and a prizewinner at the Lugano International Conducting Competition, Pascale JEANDROZ is one of a generation of conductors who are determined to maintain the highest standards and skills, while paying particular attention to the quality of the human relationships she creates with the orchestras she conducts.

Guest conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de la Région Réunion, the Ensemble Instrumental de la Creuse, the Ensemble Instrumental de Corse, the Ensemble Instrumental ‘Puncta’ d’Angers, the Coups de Vents Wind Orchestra, the Orchestre ‘I Musici Brucellensis’ in Belgium, she was also assistant conductor at the Opéra de Limoges, the Orchestre d’Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris, conductor of the Chœur de l’Armée Française, musical director of the Théâtre du Binôme, musical director of the StudiOpéra de Paris, conductor of the ONHJ (Orchestre National d’Harmonie des Jeunes) of the Confédération Musicale de France.

Born into a family of amateur musicians, Marc Lys began his musical studies in Brittany, at the Dinan music school. He then went on to the Rennes Conservatoire and the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, where he obtained advanced degrees in piano and trombone performance.

He then entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in Pierre Sancan’s piano class, followed by the writing and analysis classes. On the trombone, he was admitted successively to the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva, the CNSMD in Lyon and the CNSMD in Paris. After obtaining a certificate of aptitude for piano teaching, he was appointed to the Lille Conservatoire, where he also directs the brass ensemble. He also teaches chamber music at Cefedem Ile-de-France.

Since 2005, he has taught sight-reading and ensemble playing for brass instruments at the CNSMD in Paris. He is also co-founder of the Villa des compositeurs endowment fund.

As a concert artist, he performs as a soloist with orchestras, in chamber music with various ensembles and in recital. He is regularly invited to conduct the productions of numerous wind orchestras. Passionate about composition, he is in demand by renowned ensembles and artists, for whom he has written numerous works.

From solo instruments to musical performances, his works combine classical and jazz styles as well as contemporary music.