Jean-Noël Crocq (born 15 March 1948 in

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

) is a French classical

clarinetist The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. The clarinet family is the largest woodw ...

. Crocq studied at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...

. He created ''Le clarinettiste débutant'', a book of sheet music for beginning clarinetists. In 1974, he became the solo

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays no ...

ist for the orchestra of l'Opéra de Paris. He became the first professor of bass clarinet at Conservatoire de Paris in 1991. He is the president of Association Papageno, a chamber music advocacy group. He also collaborates with

Buffet Crampon Buffet Crampon SAS is a French manufacturer of wind instruments based in Mantes-la-Ville, in the Yvelines department. The company is the world market leader in the production of Boehm system clarinets. Its subsidiary, Buffet Crampon Deuts ...

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1948 births Living people Musicians from Rennes Conservatoire de Paris alumni 20th-century French musicians French classical clarinetists 21st-century French clarinetists {{Clarinetist-stub