Arnaud Dumond is a French

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ist, composer and teacher.

Training

After having started in music as a self-taught musician, he undertook and completed higher education in

at the École Normale de Musique de Paris under the direction of Alberto Ponce. He attended the summer internships by Emilio Pujol and Narciso Yepes in Spain,

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and

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, who invited him to come and play at the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau, then to teach there under the direction of .

External links

Official website
* Article sur le site d
Savarez
- Fabricant de cordes pour instruments de musique http://www.savarez.fr/arnaud-dumond * Entretien Arnaud Dumond with Leo Brouwer http://www.arnauddumond.com/data/auteur/temoignages/brouwer.pdf * À propos "Le basson n'est pas contagieux" http://www.arnauddumond.com/fr.html#/auteur/articles-de-AD/ * Chronique "Un nouveau concerto pour le violoncelle de Bruno Giner" par Arnaud Dumond. Published in ''

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'', February 2001.
À propos de Pierre Boulez et Maurice Ohanna
by Arnaud Dumond - Article published in ''Cahiers de la Guitare'', July 1982. * About the essay ''La haine de la musique'' by

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- ''Cahiers de la Guitare'', 1997
Arnaud Dumond - Zapateado - Rodrigo - Guitare Laplane
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