Henri-Claude Fantapié

Who is Henri-Claude Fantapié?

Henri-Claude Fantapié is a French conductor and composer. Pupil of Marc-Cesar Scotto, Eugène Bigot, Igor Markevitch and of Henri Dutilleux.

As a member of an old family of Nice, he studied clarinet, harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Nice with Eugène Gosselin and René Saorgin, and conducting, chamber music and song at the Académie de musique Rainier III of Monaco. Little nephew of the composer and conductor César Fantapié and nephew of the pianist Blanche Fantapié. In Paris, he studied conducting with Eugène Bigot, composition with Henri Dutilleux and musicology with Jacques Chailley. He has won prizes at several international competitions for both conducting and composition, such as in 1960 Concours International des Jeunes chefs d'orchestre de Besançon.

His career began in

1959–1963 as director of Orchestre de chambre de la Fondation de Monaco

1964–1982 director of Les Solistes de Paris

from 1972 director of La Jeune Philharmonie de Seine-Saint-Denis

from 1982 director of Dionysos Chamber Orchestra.

Invited to conduct in England, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Columbia.