Franck Pulcini is a French classical

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er.

Life

Born in

Limoges Limoges (, , ; oc, Lemòtges, locally ) is a city and Communes of France, commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne Departments of France, department in west-central France. It was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region ...

, Pulcini started studying music at the Limoges Conservatory in Gérard Dubarry's class, where he won a gold medal and a city award. For several years, he went to perfect his skills with many trumpeters who were references such as Marcel Lagorce, Bernard Jeannoutot,

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, Carmine Caruso and Antoine Curé. In 1983, he entered the

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Pierre Thibaud Pierre Thibaud (22 June 1929 – 29 October 2004) was a French classical trumpeter. Life Born in Proissans (Dordogne), Thibaud studied violon and trumpet at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, then at the Conservatoire de Paris in Eugène Foveau's c ...

's class. He perfected his skills for 3 years before obtaining a first prize unanimously in 1986. He will then play with the most prestigious orchestras both nationally and internationally such as the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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etc. He will thus have the opportunity to play under the direction of

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, and

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. In 1994, he won first prize in the Tokyo International Competition. He is also a laureate of several international trumpet competitions as a soloist: the Prague International Music Competition, the

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in Florida. In 1995, he was appointed principal trumpet of the

Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra The Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra (also known in English as the SWR Baden-Baden Freiburg Symphony Orchestra and in German as the Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks) was a German radio orchestra located in the German cities of Bad ...

of Baden-Baden and Fribourg-en-Brisgau. As for

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

, he founded the Epsilon brass ensemble with Jean-Pierre Cénédèse, Bruno Flahou and Thierry Thibault. This brass quartet is the winner of the International Narbonne Competition and the Osaka Chamber Music Competition in Japan. In addition to performing numerous concerts, the Epsilon ensemble participates in numerous musical workshops around the world. Pulcini is the

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, with his three accomplices of Epsilon, of the "Cuivres en Fête" festivalCuivres en Fête
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es every year in August. He regularly performs on tours throughout the world, whether in chamber music with the Epsilon Ensemble, in recital or as a soloist accompanied by the world's leading orchestras.Franck Pulcini
(Yamaha Europe)

References

External links

Personal website

F. Pulcini
(Livma Music)
F. Pulicini
(mousikos.fr)
Franck Pulcini - Concierto de Aranjuez, J. Rodrigo - Hércules Brass Ensemble
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