Maestro Serge Fournier

Professional Preparation, Awards and Achievements

Graduate Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with academic honors as follows:

Premier Prix de Direction d’ Orchestre (Conducting)
Premier Prix d’ Ensemble Instrumental (Chamber Music)
Première Médaille de Solfège
Premier Prix de Flute
Premier Prix d’ Histoire de la Musique (Musicology)
Deuxième Accessit de Contrepoint

Studies at Munich (Musikhochschule) and Rome
Friedelind Wagner’s - Master Class at Bayreuth
Studies in Harmony with noted Composer Maurice Duruflé
Studies in Conducting with Louis Fourestier,
Music Director of the Paris Opera

Koussevitsky Memorial Conducting Prize,
Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood

World Premiere: Autumn Music, Andrzej Panufnik,
Orchestre Philharmonique de l’ O.R.T.F, Paris

World Première: Flute Concerto, Aram Khatchaturian,
Jean-Pierre Rampal, soloist, Toledo Symphony Orchestra

World Première: Trombone Concerto, Mark Harrell,
Sam Chen, soloist, Oak Ridge Symphony

Honorary Member PI DELTA PHI Société d' Honneur Française
DFA (Honorary) University of Toledo

Chevalier de l’ Ordre des Arts et Lettres, awarded by
the French government
for outstanding achievements in the promotion of
French Arts and Cultural Relations