FRANÇOIS PARIS The French composer François Paris was born in Valenciennes in 1961. He was taught analysis, orchestration and composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris by Ivo Malec, Betsy Jolas and Gérard Grisey. After having won first prize for composition, in his final year, he was recognised by Luciano Berio in 1993, who awarded him a prize at the International Competition of Besançon. In the same year, he received a commission from the reading committee of the Ircam and he was resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome (from 1993 to 1995). Back in France, he obtained his musical teaching certificate (CA). In 1999, after winning “the extra-muros Villa Médicis” from the French Association for Artistic Action (AFAA), he became a resident in the Asturias, Spain. He won the Claude Arrieu prize from the SACEM in 2001. He was the director of music in Sarcelles, France, for three years (1997 to 2000). In 2004, he was appointed honorary professor of composition at the Capital Normal University of Beijing. He also teaches music in France and abroad. Since 2000 he has been the director of the CIRM, the National Center for Musical creation and of the MANCA Festival in Nice. Between 2011 and 2014, he taught composition at the Conservatory of Shanghai (60 days each year).